The Modern Day Slave

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Sex trafficking has become an American cause célèbre. But does it divert attention from the broader human trafficking issue of modern-day slavery?

According to The Christian Science Monitor, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was on a political trip in Calcutta, India when she visited a shelter established to support victims of the international crime of human trafficking. She considers human trafficking as one of the largest and urgent human rights concerns.

Clinton has teamed up with prominent international people in an attempt to bring awareness to human trafficking that consist of forced labor ranging from mining to prostitution.

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Hanes, Stephanie. Human trafficking: a misunderstood global scourge . N.p., 9 Sept. 2012. Web. 11 Sept. 2012. Path: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2012/0909/Human-trafficking-a-misunderstood-global-scourge.

Human trafficking: a misunderstood global scourge

Sex trafficking has become an American cause célèbre. But does it divert attention from the broader human trafficking issue of modern-day slavery?

By Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent / September 9, 2012

During a diplomatic visit to Calcutta, India, in May, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped at a shelter for young women and girls. It was not an ordinary shelter, but one with a specific mission – a mission Ms. Clinton wanted reporters to broadcast to Americans back home. It was a shelter established to help victims of human trafficking, an international crime that Clinton and other international players have called one of the world's largest and most pressing human rights concerns. It was also, primarily, helping girls who'd been trafficked for sex.

This is a key cause for Clinton. In recent years, she and other international figures – from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to British Prime Minister David Cameron – have raised the alarm about human trafficking, a practice...