{"id":5654,"date":"2009-06-20T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/20\/human-trafficking-report-issue\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T20:26:02","slug":"human-trafficking-report-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/20\/human-trafficking-report-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Trafficking Report Issued by US State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report sheds light on the faces of modern-day slavery and on new facets of this global problem. The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country, including the United States. In acknowledging America&#8217;s own struggle with modern-day slavery and slavery-related practices, we offer partnership. We call on every government to join us in working to build consensus and leverage resources to eliminate all forms of human trafficking.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Secretary Clinton, June 16, 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were over 5000 prosecuted cases of trafficking globally last year.<\/li>\n<li>Good news:  That is a decrease from previous years.<\/li>\n<li>The categories of trafficking identified in the report include: forced labor, bonded labor, debt bondage among migrant laborers, involuntary domestic servitude, forced child labor, child soldiers,  sex trafficking,  child sex trafficking and related abuses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/tip\/rls\/tiprpt\/2009\/index.htm\">More information and the report itself is available here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report sheds light on the faces of modern-day slavery and on new facets of this global problem. The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country, including the United States. In acknowledging America&#8217;s own struggle with modern-day slavery and slavery-related practices, we offer partnership. We call on every government to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/20\/human-trafficking-report-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Human Trafficking Report Issued by US State Department<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}