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

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: 5, Insightful) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @05:08PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @05:08PM (#751019) Journal

    You call Drug Use, Gambling, and Prostitution Normal / Victimless human pursuits, but I don't think you understand the meaning of Victimless.

    Sigh.

    . They just tend to be the children/family of the gambling addict, or the drug addict, or the children that are pushed into Prostitution.

    That would be wrong. In the first two situations, they are harmed by the behavior of the addict of whatever. In the second case, that's highly illegal, even if (or rather when) one legalizes prostitution.

    Then we get to the enforcement of laws against these activities. Once again, we see evidence of the lack of victimhood with far more harm created by law enforcement and incarceration than by the alleged crimes themselves.

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