The word slavery, in today's world, is most commonly linked with the long passed , melancholy periods associated with the open capturing, exploiting and trading of human lives. The term brings to mind the vast colonial empires created by barbaric invaders in ventures of profiting from the livelihoods of the enslaved. Yet reality insists (we cannot ignore the reality) that this sinful system not only prevails today, but is also thriving at a much larger scale than it ever had before Human trafficking is one of today's most offensive forms of human rights violations.
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