no-longer-a-slumdog
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no-longer-a-slumdog
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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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