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British Baptist pastor Steve Chalke was appointed special advisor to the United Nation's Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (U.N.GIFT). Chalke, chair of Stop the Traffic,a group of 1,000 organizations in 60 countries that work to stop the buying and selling of people, will work in the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime to help foster community action against human trafficking,Associated Baptist Press reported Tuesday.Author of more than 40 books, Chalke has long campaigned to end poverty through housing, healthcare and educational projects. He has also become a major advocate in the anti-trafficking campaign.According to a Baptist World Aid press release, Chalke said "the crime of people trafficking-or, to put it in stark terms, modern slavery-for sex, forced labor and even organ harvesting is one that shames us all."His remarks came during the first international anti-human trafficking forum, held in February in Austria.The event, planned by U.N.GIFT, drew 1,200 delegates from the 192 member countries of the United Nations.Human trafficking is "the world's fastest growing crime"and is"a great evil"that needs to be defeated,Chalke said. According to U.N. estimates, more than 2.5 million people are victims of human trafficking worldwide each year. The vast majority of them are under the age of 24.
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