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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: 1) by khallow on Friday October 19 2018, @07:01PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @07:01PM (#751091) Journal

    Your case is the objection to corporations being considered the exclusive importer of slave labor and if you'd made it coherently, it would have been conceded.

    What corporations? Neither the article or you mention a single one. I'm not the only person here with any obligation to make coherent points.

    You point about contraband is another argument unless you want to discuss people and narcotics being trafficked over the border and arms being sent back.

    Given that was what was being discussed in the article (the article mentioned "north of the border"), of course.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:14PM (#751131)

    What corporations? Neither the article or you mention a single one.

    Corporate supremacists love the pain they inflict on immigrants and locals

    I'm not the only person here with any obligation to make coherent points.

    Corporate supremacist confirmed.

    Given that was what was being discussed in the article

    This is a discussion about slavery which includes human trafficking.