Writes Asclepius, LUDCI.eu Editorial team

“This is an urgent humanitarian issue. My Administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to confront

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this threat, to support the victims and survivors, and to hold traffickers accountable for their heinous crimes.” – President Donald J. Trump said at the 2018 meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Human trafficking is exactly slavery with a modern-day twist. No one should have to be a victim of trafficking. It is not only a grave crime and abuse of human rights. It also poses a threat to national and economic security and undermines the rule of law. Trafficking in persons is a global plague with an estimate of 26.9 million victims. The perpetrators target adults and children and exploit them in unimaginable ways for their own profit. Paedophilia is a major reason for the trafficking of children. Many trafficked children are made to work in sex houses where paedophiles pay to satisfy their dark and obscene pleasures.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 called for the creation of the President's Interagen...

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