Trafficking in persons represents the fastest growing revenue source in the South Asian black market. The criminal syndicates that traffic drugs, arms and humans are increasingly tied to terror networks that have seen government support dry up. The profits from human trafficking fund the infrastructure and activities of South Asian terror networks. In the words of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell:

Aside from the intolerable human rights violations that trafficking involves, trafficking is linked to other very grave problems that we must not allow to persist, let alone to grow. Trafficking is linked to international crime syndicates that peddle drugs, guns and false documents, as well as peddling people. Trafficking is a global public health threat that spreads HIV/AIDS. Trafficking is also a global security threat because profits from trafficking finance still more crime and violence, including, very likely, terrorist violence.
(Remarks at the Rollout of the 2004 Trafficking in Persons Annual Report, June 14, 2004).

Strengthening the rule of law and reducing the profits of trafficking in persons will decrease the capacity of terror networks and increase global security. The Daywalka Foundation is building cases against the criminal syndicates that contract with them.