Why We Need A Global Coalition To Fight Child Trafficking

Most Americans believe slavery was a terrible atrocity from the history books.

In terms of pure scale, however, slavery is more alive and well today than at any time in human history.

During the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, nearly 13 million Africans were ripped from their homes and forced against their will to foreign destinations. Today, according to the U.S. State Department, there are over 27 million global victims of human trafficking at any given time.

Many of those victims are children, stolen and forced into the sickening...