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About CORD The Center on Rights Development was established in 1988 as part of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. The Center promotes universal recognition of human rights in all societies by undertaking research on human rights violations, establishing links with academic and legal monitoring centers around the world and conducting outreach to local and national organizations engaged in human rights activism and education. The Center sponsors several events and activities including speakers, films, an annual symposium and other human rights activities. Theme for the 2007-2008 Academic Year: Human Trafficking and Forced Labor For the 2007-2008 academic year, the Center will focus on the issues of human trafficking and forced labor. Various events and activities related to these topics will be coordinated througout the year. There will be ongoing collaboration with the online journal Human Rights and Human Welfare and the DU Task Force on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking who are also focusing on these topics. There are more slaves in the world today than anytime in history. The present worldwide estimate is that there are between 23-27 million slaves. Over 1.2 million people are trafficked across international borders into slavery every year. Between 14,500 – 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year and a conservative estimate would be that there are a minimum of 100,000 slaves in the U.S. at any given time.Approximately 75% of human beings trafficked are women and girls. About 49% of those trafficked are forced into the commercial sex industry, the remaining 51% are in agriculture, clothing industry, domestic work and hotels. Human trafficking is second only to the illicit drug trade in terms of illegal profit for organized crime and most in the human trafficking field expect it to surpass the drug trade in the next decade. |
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