It would be really cool if this takes off. I think the one that tracks the actual reporting of incidents will be most effective but, I like this one because it is positive and provides information for each region. Plus, it allows initiatives to put themselves on the map! Add yours!
Andrew Fung of Simon Fraser put together a piece titled, “Human Trafficking Visualized.” I think it was for a school project but, I wanted to post because he did a good job on it…
Here is the US State Department update on regional court activity…
UNIFEM posted a cool diagram of the line between human trafficking, migration and smuggling. Shows the amount of overlap in exploitation for all three categories…
Wow, I was excited to find this new report. Mary Honeyball, Labour MEP for London just launched it this year. You definitely want to read the entire thing. Click on her stats for more information…
Here is a map identifying routes potentially used in Russia. The source is a blogger. Looks pretty good too. Click on the map…
Another ILO (International Labour Organization) graph depicting the number of victims performing various acts of servitude. I don’t see a year on this chart. People at BBC News seem to be using it this year…Click the link for the source…
While no slave is less important than the other, these statistics are alarming because they put into perspective the idea that although we believe slavery to have been abolished, it thrives everywhere. Another sad truth about modern slaves, they aren’t worth as much to the slave owners as they were during the Transatlantic Trade. We can only hope they don’t get treated any worse (how much worse can it get) than those of early slavery…
Here is an interesting map of Nepal provided by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). And, what they are saying about 2011:
Author: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Another view of the trends. Channel 5 Belize did a piece on their region. Click on the image to read what Channel 5 has to say about their tier 2 rating! Again, Department of State released the trends for each country…
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