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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Phys.org [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 [ft.com] 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 [ilo.org]. Today's global slave trade is so lucrative that it nets traffickers more than US$150 billion [ilo.org] each year.

The article asserts that much of today's slavery is being driven by the demand for electronic goods.

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