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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 19 2018, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday October 19 2018, @10:50PM (#751191) Journal

    The US Constitution overrides state constitutions.

    Not in this case it doesn't.

    Federal law is effectively a minimum standard. The bit that includes crime-slavery is direct from the 13th amendment. States are free to pass more stringent bans on slavery if they wish.

    The 13th would only override the state constitution if it wanted to allow more slavery.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:09AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:09AM (#751521) Journal

    Just wait until the new SCOTUS decides that because FPI is a corporation that operates across state lines, the state laws are overridden because hurr durr interstate commerce clause. I can see them doing that.

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