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Slavery Was Never Abolished – It Affects Millions, and You May Be Funding It

posted by mrpg on Friday October 19 2018, @02:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-suffering-it dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

When we think of slavery, many of us think of historical or so-called "traditional forms" of slavery – and of the 12m people ripped from their West African homes and shipped across the Atlantic for a lifetime in the plantations of the Americas.

But slavery is not just something that happened in the past –- the modern day estimate for the number of men, women and children forced into labour worldwide exceeds 40m. Today's global slave trade is so lucrative that it nets traffickers more than US$150 billion each year.

The article asserts that much of today's slavery is being driven by the demand for electronic goods.

[Edit: fixed ILO links]

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:09PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:09PM (#750946)

    "Mass immigration"? Do you mean people fleeing from oppression, war zones and ethnic cleansing? If that was for the purpose of "slavery" wouldn't it easier just to round everybody up and ship them off to the countries that bid the highest? Why make them trek for thousands of miles - and endangering their lives - when they would be worth more if they were healthy and properly fed? Sounds like you may need to rethink your trollish position.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:52PM (#750976)

    Do you mean people fleeing from oppression, war zones and ethnic cleansing?

    Things the UN should be preventing?

    Sounds like you may need to rethink your trollish position.

    Sounds like you might need to remove your head from your ass [humanrightsfirst.org] and stop supporting human trafficking [politico.eu] by conflating economic migrants with refugees.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:53PM (#751167)

    It's cheaper and kills multiple birds with one stone to make them travel without having to coerce them directly.