Fatal Promises

Every year an estimated 800000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude Estimates are that as many as 32 million people yearly are held in slavelike conditions for sexual or labour exploitation 24 million of these individuals as a result of being trafficked They are promised good jobs or pay but end up forced into prostitution or working in servitude for no pay They are emotionally and physically brutalized starved forced to work extremely long hours stripped of their passports and locked away and eventually discarded or worse murdered Eight years after the United Nations established the Palermo Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Fatal Promises offers a comprehensive look at the realities on the ground versus the rhetoric of today