"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Human trafficking is the third most profitable crime in the world. Last year it brought in $32 billion dollars in revenue. That's much more than Google, Nike and Starbucks made combined. Human Trafficking is a huge global problem, and it has found its way to Vienna. Because Vienna is the bridge between the East and the West, there are a lot of cases of human trafficking. Illegal prostitutes and forced labor workers are the most common.
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There is a growing trend in buying people to work for seasonal jobs, like the time around Christmas. It is very hard to find statistics on something like this in Vienna, but we have contacted organizations like Internationale Organisation fur Migration (IOM) and gathered some information. To give you the whole picture, we gave this question a global perspective.
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