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Global economy fuels human trafficking

Two victims of human trafficking

Slavery is a huge element of the global economy, and it goes unseen by consumers. Kai Ryssdal talks with Kevin Bales of the advocacy group Free the Slaves about his efforts to clean up the slave supply chain.

Geralyn Quezo, 17, left, and a fellow victim of human trafficking at the Visayan Forum Foundation's halfway house in Manila. Trafficked into slavery as a young girl, Quezo has endured hardships from being a household slave to living in the streets of Manila. (Jason Guitierrez/AFP/Getty Images))

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