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The trafficking of women and girls.
And with these projects comes a slew of human costs that people don't think about: thousands of workers influxing to build these pipelines, to build and extract from the earth, bringing crime and sex trafficking and violence with them.
It's commonly reported in Ukraine that children, when leaving the orphanage are targeted for human trafficking, child pornography and prostitution.
Another thing I worry about in the global commons is the threat posed by trafficking, by the movement of narcotics, opium, here coming out of Afghanistan through Europe over to the United States.
We worry about the movement of illegal weapons and trafficking.
Above all, perhaps, we worry about human trafficking, and the awful cost of it.
Trafficking moves largely at sea but in other parts of the global commons.
This is a photograph, and I wish I could tell you that this is a very high-tech piece of US Navy gear that we're using to stop the trafficking.
This kind of trafficking, in narcotics, in humans, in weapons, God forbid, in weapons of mass destruction, is part of the threat to the global commons.
Sex trafficking is what we often think of when we hear the word slavery, and because of this worldwide awareness, I was warned that it would be difficult for me to work safely within this particular industry.
These people have no escape at all, and as we take in such a difficult subject, it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking, occurs in our own backyard as well.
That includes kidnapping, prostitution, local drug dealing and human trafficking, including of migrants that go from the south to the U.S.
So we went from doing low-level drug crimes that were outside our building to doing cases of statewide importance, on things like reducing violence with the most violent offenders, prosecuting street gangs, gun and drug trafficking, and political corruption.
I'm a journalist, and I've been writing and researching human trafficking for the past eight years or so, and even so, I never put together this personal story with my professional life until pretty recently.
I think this profound disconnect actually symbolizes most of our understanding about human trafficking.
Because human trafficking is far more prevalent, complex and close to home than most of us realize.
And when I think about what we've done about human trafficking, I am hugely disappointed.
When I say "human trafficking," most of you probably don't think about someone like my auntie.
We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl.
We let ourselves think that human trafficking is only about forced prostitution, when in reality, human trafficking is embedded in our everyday lives.
Forced prostitution accounts for 22 percent of human trafficking.
Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel another person's labor.
Human trafficking is found on a smaller scale than just that, and in places you would never even imagine.
Trafficking has even been found in a hair braiding salon in New Jersey.
But keep in mind, most victims of human trafficking are poor and marginalized.
But out of an estimated 21 million victims of human trafficking in the world, they have helped and identified fewer than 50,000 people.
As for convictions, out of an estimated 5,700 convictions in 2013, fewer than 500 were for labor trafficking.
Keep in mind that labor trafficking accounts for 68 percent of all trafficking, but fewer than 10 percent of the convictions.
I've heard one expert say that trafficking happens where need meets greed.
Trafficking happens in sectors where workers are excluded from protections, and denied the right to organize.
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