Resources for Teachers – Photos & Artwork
for preparing presentations and lessons. Human Trafficking,
including modern day slavery, contemporary slavery, debt bondage, serfdom,
forced labor, forced marriage, transferring of wives, inheritance of wives, and transfer of a child for purposes of
exploitation. Also forced prostitution,
child prostitution, sale of children, and trafficking in children.
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Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Graphics & Images |
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Types of jobs held by youths in
1990. (Data from Children's Safety
Network) |
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Girls of 9 Work as Sex Slaves |
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War Against Human Trafficking – Freedom For All The
Victims |
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Ghana - a six-year-old Mark Kwadwo rescued from forced labour
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Benin - Three enslaved children
(photo: ESAM/Anti-Slavery International) |
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India - Boy car mechanic [Images
of Child Labor, Madras, 1997 by Usha Kris] |
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India - Boy mechanics fixing
bikes [Images
of Child Labor, Madras, 1997 by Usha Kris] |
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India - Boy vendor on bike cart [Images
of Child Labor, Madras, 1997 by Usha Kris] |
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Children at work - ©AP Photo |
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Egypt - According to official statistics, a third of
Egypt's 80 million population is below the age of 15.
NGOs say that among those, 10 percent are forced to work, often in difficult
conditions |
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Boy carrying a basket |
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Burmese girls haul bricks at
construction site in Rangoon |
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Child labor in the mines. The
Warder Collection. |
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Children in rural areas of Honduras
are often forced to leave school to work in the fields |
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Eleven-year-old Carlos Alberto Flete looks back out of the entrance to the La India gold
mine as he enters to go to work, 113 miles north of Managua, November 15,
2004 |
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Twelve-year-old Junior Calderon walks
toward the entrance of the La India gold mine as leaves to fetch water for
his fellow workers, 113 miles north of Managua, November 15, 2004 |
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Electroplate Worker (Photo: David Parker) |
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Hazardous and exploitative forms
of child labor |
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Hazardous and exploitative forms
of child labor ©
International Labor Organization/ J.M. Derrien |
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Hazardous and exploitative forms
of child labor ©
International Labor Organization/J. Maillard |
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Burma - Hard labor or kindergarten? Burmese children
working on an underground plumbing system in Myawaddy. [Photo: goodgolly]. |
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A thirteen-year-old girl is held
captive by the FARC leftist guerilla in La Plata,
Colombia - 7/2002. © Getty Images |
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Children in a Philippine
shantytown with militia presence ©
International Labor Organization/P. Deloche |
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Burma – Child soldiers in Burma near the border with
Thailand, 31 January 2000 - AFP |
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Women forced laborers under Nazi
rule |
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Organ in a Bag – Taking children
abroad to sell their organs |
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Bedona Begum of
Narayanganj cannot hold tears as she found her son Alam at a shelter home in Dhaka after seven years. Photo:
AKM Mohsin |
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Joseph's burned legs after being
nailed to a board by his master and left for dead. He was a 7-year old Sudanese Dinka boy when he had been sold into slavery - Credit:
Persecution Project Foundation |
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Joseph's back bears the scars of
his beatings |
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Children rescued from a baby
trafficking gang that took 21 babies from Xuanwei, Yunnan Province, and sold them in Hebi,
Henan Province. [newsphoto/file] |
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Sudanese slaves await redemption
in Madhol, Sudan, in December 1997. An Arab trader sold
132 former slaves, women and children, for $13,200 (in Sudanese money) to a
member of Christian Solidarity International. [AP Photo] |
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Nigeria - Trafficked children are
mostly girls, these youngsters ended up in Gabon |
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Afghanistan - Destitute Afghan
children fall prey to traffickers ©IRIN |
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Afghanistan - A large number of
Afghan children have fallen victim to traffickers ©IRIN |
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Botswana - Human traffickers
target vulnerable young women and girls |
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This woman in her early 20s was
trafficked into a blue jean sweatshop, where she and other young women were
locked in and made to work 20 hours a day, sleeping on the floor, with little
to eat and no pay. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department] |
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Burmese migrants who are often
trafficked onto fishing ships are kept at sea for months and even years at a
time. If they protest and ask to be put ashore, they may be threatened at
gunpoint and locked in containers, or fired and not paid for their work. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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A 9-year-old girl toils under the
hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week. She was
trafficked with her entire family from Bihar, one of the poorest and most
underdeveloped states in India, and sold to the owner of a brick-making
factory. With no means of escape, and unable to speak the local language, the
family is isolated and lives in terrible conditions. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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Human trafficking involves the
use of force, fraud, or coercion to enslave a person. Sometimes traffickers
use a bond, or debt, to keep a person trapped. Many workers around the world
fall victim to debt bondage when they assume a debt as part of their employment,
or inherit debt in more traditional systems of bonded labor. Especially in
South Asia, people can be trapped in debt bondage from generation to
generation. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department] |
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Carpet weavers like this family
are usually Dalits or "Untouchables," the
lowest caste in South Asian society. In many instances, the children are helping
a family member, or someone else in their village who
has fallen into debt. An offer is made to place a loom in their hut so they
can pay off their debt, but this only ensures their enslavement, sometimes
for generations. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department] |
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Before being rescued by an Indian
non-governmental organization affiliated with Free the Slaves, most of these
children were forced to work on carpet or sari looms from morning to night.
Some were bonded and some were born to bonded laborers who had received an
"advance" against their birth. Initially fearful and withdrawn, the
children have blossomed in the protected environment of this special
school. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department] |
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Young men sew beads and sequins
in intricate patterns onto saris and shawls at a "zari"
workshop in Mumbai, India. The boys, who arrive by train from impoverished
villages across India, often work from six in the morning until two in the
morning the next day. Some sleep on the floor of the workshop. If they make
the smallest mistake, they might be beaten. All say they work to send money
back to their families, but some employers are known to withhold their meager
pay. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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Street kids, runaways, or
children living in poverty can fall under the control of traffickers who
force them into begging rings. Children are sometimes intentionally
disfigured to attract more money from passersby. Victims of organized begging
rings are often beaten or injured if they don't bring in enough money. They
are also vulnerable to sexual abuse.
[photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State
Department] |
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This brothel keeper and her
slaves are in a red-light district in Mumbai, India. The women and girls used
in prostitution may be exploited 10 to 40 times a night, sometimes keeping as
little as 20 rupees (less than 50 cents) per encounter. The Madam takes the
biggest cut for herself, then pays the landlord, the
pimps, and her "protectors." Government corruption is one of the
driving factors behind the burgeoning trade in human beings. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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At Mumbai's central train
station, young boys like this one arrive daily from rural India thinking they
will find work in order to send money home, but the boys often fall prey to
unscrupulous traffickers and corrupt officials. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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A Roma (gypsy) child finds
herself on the side of a road in northern Italy, ironically wearing a shirt
that proclaims, "Outsider." Her family, which fled the ethnic
turmoil in Bosnia, is always on the move. Poverty, discrimination, and social
customs combine to make Roma children vulnerable to trafficking. [photo by Kay Chernush
for the U.S. State Department] |
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UK - Life of despair: foreign
girls are being lured to Scotland under false pretences, held captive and
forced to work as prostitutes under threat of violence if they do not comply.
Many are sold on over and over again for around £7,000 a time. [Photograph: Robert Perry] |