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| Nearly 50% of the world's population is under the age of twenty five and there are more than 1 billion aged 10-18 years old |
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| Around 700,000 people are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour |
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| Russian victims sexually exploited in Germany reportedly earn GBP5000 monthly for the traffickers. |
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| An estimated 200,000 Nepali women, mainly under 18, are forced to work in Indian cities. |
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| UNICEF estimates that more than 200,000 children are enslaved through cross-border trafficking in West and Central Africa. |
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| 45,000 to 50,000 women and children are trafficked to the US every year and forced to work as prostitutes, abused labourers or domestic servants. |
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| At present approximately 4,000-5,000 children are missing from Northern Bilhar. |
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| There are 27 million slaves throughout the world - that is more than twice the number of people taken from Africa during the 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade. |
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| In the Ivory Coast a healthy young man can be purchased on the market for around £20. |
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| 18% of Britons feel unfulfilled in their lives compared to 7% of Germans and 11% of Italians. |
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| We do well to heed the words of John Pollock, "Wilberforce proves," he wrote, "that one man can change his times, but he cannot do it alone." |
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| John Wesley had written to William Wilberforce to encourage him, "unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. but if God be for you, who can be against you..." |
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| Three in five youngsters between the ages ten and 15 will go to mum with their sensitive questions. Nearly 40 per cent of dads admit to never having discussed sex and puberty with their children. |
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| Evangelical Christians rank lower than lesbians and lawyers with non-Christians, according to survey by the Barna Research Group in the United States. They finished only above prostitutes among 11 categories ranked by the survey. Yet born-again Christians were third highest category, behind only church ministers and, at the top, military officers. |
| Baptist Times - Issue December 12th, 2002 |
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| Aid to Africa fell by a third between 1999 and 2000. |
| Baptist Times - Issue December 5th, 2002 |
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