This 'Human Mart' Uses Bright, Cheery Products to Raise Awareness of Modern Slavery

Faux pop-up shines a spotlight on exploitation by 'selling' people's lives

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Anti-Slavery Australia, a nonprofit, has created a store that aims to make passersby stop in their tracks: the Human Mart, an “unethically sourced” store that promises to sell hand-picked “crushed aspirations.”

The project aims to raise awareness of the fact that, according to the organization, 15,000 people are being kept in “slave-like” conditions in the country today—an alarming statistic that includes those trafficked for cheap labour as well as those trapped in forced marriages or sold for sex.

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