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Real Threat in a Known Market for Children - NYTimes.com

Source: NYTimes.com

By RICK GLADSTONE

MAY 7, 2014

When the leader of the Boko Haram extremist groupthreatened to sell hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian girls “in the market” in a rambling online video posted this week, he was not necessarily making an irrational boast.

Doing just that is entirely possible in parts of Nigeria and elsewhere in the developing world, human rights investigators and researchers of child trafficking, sexual slavery and forced marriage said. However egregious it may sound, in some areas the buying and selling of women and children, particularly young girls, has long been an underlying problem.

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Global slavery mapped | News | theguardian.com

 Source: The Guardian

Modern day slavery directly affects 29 million people in the world today - that's according to a new index which has sought to look at this empirically by measuring the prevalence of slavery by population, child marriage and human trafficking on a country by country basis. You can see their results in this interactive map.

Select a specific region from the list in the top right-hand corner or click on a country to find out the scale of its slavery. Alternatively, click on 'plot' at the bottom of the screen to compare each country in a graph.

Who made this? Walk Free Foundation

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/oct/17/slavery-modern-day-global-mapped