Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2003

摘要

The Annual Trafficking in Persons Report is about modern day slavery and slave trading. It is appalling that in the twenty-first century hundreds of thousands of women, children, and men made vulnerable by civil conflict, dire economic circumstances, natural disasters or just their own desire for a better life are trafficked and exploited for the purposes of sex or forced labor. The deprivation of a human being's basic right to freedom is an affront to the ideals of liberty and human dignity cherished by people around the world.