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One of the leading problems in the world today is human trafficking. Human trafficking is defined as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of the threat, use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse or exploitation." This type of transporting, holding, and forcing people into servitude is considered a modern type of slavery. Many thought that this word "slavery", had been abolished over 150 years ago but it is very much alive in our world today. There are other nations that have eradicated slavery as a state-sanctioned practice, but human trafficking has emerged as a "modern form of human slavery." "It is a growing global threat to the lives and freedom of millions of men, women, and children." Human trafficking often people who are a part of organized crime groups whose number one agenda is to money at the cost of trafficking men, women, and children. Trafficking is broken down into many different aspects, each one more repulsive than the next. Each type of human trafficking exploits men, women, and children. Human trafficking has the following types: sexual exploitation, child soldiers, organ harvesting, and forced labor. More than half of the victims used in trafficking are used for sexual exploitation, prostitution or as sex slaves. Children are forced to fight and given weapons to use in war torn areas. Victims of organ harvesting are forced to give up their hearts or livers which are eventually sold on the black market. Forced labor victims are traditional slaves that are held captive and put to work as indentured servants, in sweatshops, or on farms. Traffickers have many methods to get their victims to perform their bidding. Many of them are forced into trafficking and do not have a way out. Some are kidnapped or taken by force from their homes. A number of them are tricked