(CNSNews.com) – Actress Jada
Pinkett Smith told a Senate hearing Tuesday that 27 million people
worldwide are victims of human trafficking – “more than at any point in
history” with 40,000 people “enslaved on our soil at any moment.”
Smith, an advocate for Don’t Sell Bodies,
which is designed to increase awareness about human trafficking,
testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday at a
hearing called, “The Next Ten Years in the Fight Against Human
Trafficking: Attacking the Problem with the Right Tools.”
“There are an estimated 27 million slaves worldwide – more than at
any point in history,” Smith said, adding that victims of human
trafficking represent “every nationality, ethnicity, age group” and can
be found everywhere, including the U.S.
“Here, almost 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the United
States, conservative estimates suggest that 40,000 people are enslaved
on our soil at any moment,” she said.
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