The world of human trafficking

How America rates countries on their efforts to prevent human trafficking IN MOST people's minds, slavery was an immoral practice that ended in the 19th century. But the huge amount of sex trafficking and forced labour in the world—estimates suggest there are 27m victims of these practices—has led policymakers to brand this as "modern slavery" and work towards its eradication. For the past 12 years the American government has issued a "Trafficking in Persons Report", which ranks nearly every country on their compliance with America's Trafficking Victims Protection Act (though the only sanction is opprobrium). See full Article.