This episode discusses the disturbingly high number of individuals forced into commercial sex trade and estimated slaves in the world. It also draws a comparison between drug trafficking and human trafficking in terms of profitability.
Sex trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, rivaling the numbers for drug trafficking. The renewable product of selling humans for sex makes it a lucrative business.
Human trafficking is modern slavery that takes different forms worldwide, from forced labor or commercial sex trade to organ harvesting, and it affects about 30 million people today, among them about 10 million children according to estimates. While human trafficking occurs in every country, it may look different depending on each region.