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21^st Century Slavery

Slavery

Is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold,and are forced to work.Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture,purchase or birth and deprived of the right to leave,right to refuse to work or to demand compesation.

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Types of slavery

1.Chattel slavery

Chattel slavery so named because people are treated as personal property,chattels,of an owner and are bought and as commondities this is original form of slavery,now when taking these chattels across national borders it is reffered to as Human Trafficking.

2.Bonded labor

Debt bondage or bonded labor occurs when a person pledges themselvess against loan.The services required to repay the debt,and their duration may be undefined.Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation,with children required to pay off their parents debt.It is the most widespread form of slavery today.

3.Forced labor

Forced labor is when an individual is forced to work against their will,under threat of violence or other punishment,with restrictions on their freedom.It is also used to describe all types of slavery and may also include institutions not commonly classified as slavery,such as serfdom,conscription and penal labor.

21^st Century Slavery

Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago" writes of the slave-labor system, a dominant factor in the Soviet economy under Lenin and Stalin. Once a prisoner himself, he revealed that between 1918 and 1959, 66 million men, women, and children were trafficked to slave labor "islands" or concentration camps within Russia.

Analogy,and an Ancient fact

Throughout the world's darkest history, we can find entire civilizations built on the backs of slaves. The modern ages reveal forced labor feats that rival the 2,500 B.C. Egyptian pyramids, also built by slaves. Bloody human hands have hacked out thousands of miles of sea and river canals, railway lines, and highways as global industrial empires were built at the price of human bondage. Always behind these enormous human accomplishments stands greed--the reason for the power of man to make other men

what they please

The situation today

Today, 21st century slavery has changed a little from Solzhenitsyn's 1974 portrayal. The numbers and profits have increased, as well as the clandestine methods of human trafficking. 

• According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], human trafficking alone generates a staggering $9.5 billion in yearly revenues worldwide.
• The International Labour Office [ILO] estimates that figure to be $32 billion each year. 
  
•  There are more slaves today than any other time in human history. Worldwide estimates are that 27 million men, women, and children, even babies, are in slavery today, at any given time, a number much greater than any other period in recorded history and exponentially growing.

Dr Kelvin Bales Quotation

Dr. Kevin Bales, an Oklahoma native, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey Roehampton, England, and serves as a consultant to the United Nations on human slavery and trafficking,said “Several crucial differences in the slaves of the old days was they were expensive, you kept them for their whole lives, and you took excellent care of them. Today, they are cheap. In fact, there is a glut of slaves and when you've used them, you throw them away if you don't want them anymore--they're disposable."

What kind of work do the enslaved perform?

• The enslaved works as field hands harvesting crops
• They work as kiddnaped fishermen or child soldiers
  and as common laborers so deeply in debt that their obligation can never be repaid
• The women and children mostly teenage girls,and younger caught up in global sex industry of prostitution,phonograpy and pedophilia

What can be done to end 21^st century slavery?

Make the efforts to end slavery and leave your foot prints on the world free of slavery:http://thea21campaign.org


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