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No Longer a Slumdog<br />

or sexual abuse; or dangerous equipment, confined<br />

spaces or toxic environments. 6<br />

➛ UNICEF estimates India’s child labor population<br />

to be 30 million. 7 Other reliable sources believe<br />

the number is closer to 50 million. 8<br />

Human trafficking is one of the fastest-growing criminal<br />

enterprises in the world today, soon to surpass the drug trade.<br />

➛ 2.5 million people around the world are in forced labor at any<br />

given time as a result of trafficking. 9<br />

➛ More than half of trafficking victims are from Asia and<br />

the Pacific. 10<br />

➛ Every year, an estimated 1.2 million children become<br />

victims of trafficking. 11<br />

- Nepali women and girls, some as young as 9 years<br />

old, are sold into India’s red-light district—10,000<br />

to 15,000 per year. 12<br />

- Sri Lanka is touted as a pedophile’s paradise, with<br />

up to 40,000 child prostitutes—mostly boys—<br />

trafficked to serve tourists. 13<br />

- 300,000 children worldwide are currently trafficked<br />

as child soldiers. 14<br />

India’s population of 1.2 billion is made up of a few<br />

“haves” and a great many “have-<strong>no</strong>ts.”<br />

➛ The “Brahmins”—about 5 percent of the population—<br />

dominate the country politically, socially and eco<strong>no</strong>mically. 15<br />

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