Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781467716116)

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the case. Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own."--US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2009

Human trafficking is as old as slavery and continues to be practiced in the modern world. Victims of human traffickers include workers in restaurants and in garment factories, maids and nannies in the homes of wealthy families, child sex workers, beggars on the street, boy soldiers, even infants kidnapped for foreign adoptions. Women and children are more likely to be coerced or seized than men and boys, especially if they are poor and uneducated. Traffickers sell their victims for their bodies or for their labor and reap an enormous profit. Human trafficking is estimated to be a $30 to $45 billion industry on an annual basis, rivaling weapons and drug trafficking as one of the most profitable criminal undertakings in the world.

Up for Sale takes a hard look at human trafficking, identifying perpetrators and telling the stories of victims through their own words. You'll discover why some people become vulnerable to trafficking and you'll read about what their lives are like on a daily basis. You'll also meet some of the courageous individuals and organizations working to free people from lives in bondage so that, in the words of US president Barack Obama, each person can "forge a life equal to [their] talents and worthy of [their] dreams."

Author: Alison Marie Behnke
ISBN-10: 1467716111
ISBN-13: 9781467716116
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2014
Pages: 72
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014
School Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 122
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2014 - Recommended - Readable
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 71
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 97