Human trafficking is the fastest growing organized crime activity today. Men, women and children are trafficked within their own countries and across international borders. Every minute more than one person is smuggled across a border, which equates to ten jumbo jets every day. And the business earns twice as much as the Coca Cola brand. (STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014) It is estimated that every year more than 700,000 people are trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. They are transported across borders and sold into modern slavery. Over the past decade, human trafficking has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune. Clawson (2009) explains how the search for work abroad has been fueled by economic inequality, high unemployment and the disruption of traditional livelihoods. It recognizes neither borders nor frontiers. Consequently, the profits deriving from trafficking feed the treasure chest of organized crime. Trafficking is fueled by other criminal activities such as document fraud, money laundering and migrant smuggling. Since trafficking cases are very broad in scope, they are among the most important issues. (Clawson 2009) The Human Trafficking Report on Human Trafficking (2007) discusses many different levels as it relates to a county's response to human trafficking. The first tier consists of countries whose governments fully comply with the minimum standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway. The second level includes countries whose government does not fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards but makes efforts to improve, such as Japan, Romania, Peru and Rwanda. And finally the third level is represented by governments that do not respect... half of the paper ......itner, H., Peck, J. and Sheppard, ES (2007) Contesting Neoliberalism Urban Frontiers, New York: Guilford print .Maiska, R., eds. (2007) Gender Trafficking and Slavery, UK: Oxfam Publishers Mensah, J. (2008) Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa, UK: Palgrave MacmillanRuggiero, V. (2000) Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-Criminology, UK : Oxford University Press. Salt, J. and Stein, J. (1997) 'Migration as an enterprise', The case of trafficking, 35 (4) 467-494.Shelley, L. (2010) Human trafficking: a global perspective, London: Cambridge Printing Press.STOP THE TRAFFIK (2014) What is human trafficking? Web May 17, 2015. http://www.stopthetraffik.org/usaU.S. Department of State Publications (2007) Trafficking in Persons Report, 11407, United States of America: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs and Office of Public Affairs.