Not so Ancient: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

I blogged about THE [ACTIVATE] SERIES a while ago, but didn't have time to go into specifics. It is a resource booklet put together by The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The first one came out last year and is entitled "Not so Ancient: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery". I just wanted to highlight one page from the booklet for you. When I speak about human trafficking, I talk about the basic economics of it: Supply & Demand - as the demand for child labor, prostitution and pornography increases, the supply increases, putting more pressure to traffick humans. The booklet talks about Push & Pull Factors. "There are many causes which lead to the vulnerability of people towards human trafficking." Some examples of push factors: "extreme poverty, unemployment, lack of education and opportunity". Some examples of pull factors: "a globalized, free market economy that has increased the demand for cheap labour. . .technologies like the Internet allow for trafficking to operate beyond national boundaries in an instantaneous and worldwide reaching fashion." www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=734&nccsm=21&__nccspID=938