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Did you know that there are more than 27 million slaves in the world today?

… that human trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry in our world today - grossing an estimated $32 billion each year?

… that each year the United States is a destination country for an estimated 17,000 trafficked men, women and children?

… that according to the US State Department 2008 Human Trafficking Report, about 50 percent of transnational victims are minors, and roughly 80 percent are women and girls?

… that 70 percent of prostitution in the United States is linked to organized crime?

Did you know that there is hope?

… that Not for Sale runs 40 Regional Operations across the US and Canada, Africa, and the UK to investigate, map and intervene in cases of human trafficking and slavery?

… that there is a Georgia chapter of Not for Sale?

Here’s a bit about Not For Sale Georgia…

Not For Sale Georgia (NFS-GA) has been actively involved in supporting state legislation that will benefit victims of trafficking, especially in the area of child sex slavery. NFS-GA has worked alongside partners StreetGRACE, Wellspring Living, A Future. Not a Past., and the Barton Child Policy Clinic at Emory Law School to successfully change the wording in the child abuse reporting law that had previously restricted who in the child abuse system would have to report child sexual exploitation. With the passage of this bill, NFS-GA was able to pave the way for hundreds of Georgia’s children to receive new avenues of care.

Recently, NFS-GA with the help of Soumya Kantamneni, a rising second-year law student at George Washington University Law School, has been promoting HB 582. This bill would change how minors are classified within the sex industry. The bill would exempt minors from prosecution as prostitutes and will instead treat them as potential victims of exploitation.

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