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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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Slavery Was Never Abolished – It Affects Millions, and You May Be Funding It
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:44PM (1 child)
Britain abolished it before the US.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday October 20 2018, @05:44PM
In Britian you have subjects ruled by a king, in the US you have a country where every person is their own king. The king by degree make slavery illegal after we ended the slave trade here, it took extra time and 250k freedom loving lives to end the practice in america for good. AMerica earned it, it was granted to the brits.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam