Apr 16 2008
Drugs, Guns, Girls
They call them “shadow economies.”
Human beings make up the third largest illegal commodities market in the world, after the illegal arms and drugs trades.
“Enforcement agencies have always focused on the drugs and arms trade but this is the fastest growing global crime,” Ruth Dearnley of Stop the Traffik told BBC News.
Exact numbers are hard to pin down, but the human body market is estimated to bring in $31.6 billion a year in profits.
