"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the case. Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own."-US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2009. Human trafficking is as old as slavery and continues to be practiced in the modern world. Victims of human traffickers include workers in restaurants and in...

"Every year, millions of men, women, and children are tricked or forced into labor or commercial sexual exploitation in the United States and around the globe. Despite congressional funding and legislation such as the Trafficking and Victims Protection Act, human trafficking has become a multibillion-dollar criminal industry. While human trafficking is hardly a new phenomenon, it has been aided by modern technologies like the dark web and cryptocurrency....

Introduces global perspectives on trends in human trafficking, factors contributing to the problem, strategies to reduce its flow, and efforts to aid its victims.