19 Jun World Day Against Child Labor: A Call To Action
“I am not free while any[one] is unfree, even when [their] shackles are very different from my own.” —Audre Lorde
World Day Against Child Labor (WDACL) is on June 12, and the issue of human trafficking is once again taking center stage. In support of WDACL, anti-trafficking organizations around the world (like Beauty For Freedom, a New York non-profit started by Ford model Monica Watkins) will align their efforts to speak up as one united voice against the unthinkable, and ever-prevalent commodification of human bodies. According to the International Labor Organization, “human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise of the 21st century, an estimated $150 billion dollar industry that is second only to drugs in terms of organized crime.”