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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: 0, Offtopic) by Sulla on Friday October 19 2018, @06:52PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday October 19 2018, @06:52PM (#751087) Journal

    Slavery moved from being in bondage to being forced to work in order to pay for food or a place to live to soon being forced to work to buy your newest iphone.

    Hunter-gatherers are slaves to nature

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