To the Editor:
Everyone deserves to be free, but over 40 million people are trapped in slavery today. At the end of June, the U.S. State Department released the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The TIP Report sheds light on this hidden crime and ranks 187 countries, including the U.S., on their efforts to combat it.
As Gary Haugen, CEO of International Justice Mission, says, “Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern-day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.”
August 14, 2019
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