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You Can Do Anything in a Dress

Before Dressember, I was extremely unaware of the global state of slavery and human trafficking. I was oblivious to the 40 million people who were being enslaved through sex trafficking, bonded labour, slave labour, forced marriage among many other types of slavery. I had no idea that out of that 40 million people, one-quarter of those were children or that the average age of being manipulated in sex trafficking is between 12 and 14 years of age.

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