Top 10 Facts about Modern Slavery
Our friends over at Free The Slaves (freetheslaves.net) have provided a lot of great resources about modern slavery. Begin with the “top 10 facts about modern slavery,” then watch two great videos about human trafficking, and visit Free the Slaves for more information…
Top 10 Facts about Modern Slavery:
- Slavery: Forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away.
- 27 million slaves in the world today
- Slavery is not legal anywhere but happens everywhere.
- The majority of slaves can be found in India and in African countries.
- At least 14,500 slaves are trafficked into the US each year.
- Slaves work in fields, brothels, homes, mines, restaurants, — anywhere slave owners can feed their greed.
- Human trafficking is the modern-day slave trade.
- $90 is the average cost of a human slave around the world.
- Slave owners use many terms to avoid the word slavery: debt bondage, bonded labor, attached labor, restavec, forced labor, indentured servitude, and human trafficking.
- It is possible to end slavery in 25 years. Everyone has a role to play – government, business, international organizations, consumers, YOU.
Kevin Bales, explains how we can end slavery and human trafficking:
It is nonsense to label someone “the world’s leading expert on slavery”. It is dangerous to do so especially where that person has started an organisation that is identified with them as such.
No one defends slavery. At the same time, we shouldn’t uncritically accept as gospel every estimate about the magnitude of the problem. Especially since previous estimates about the number of sex slaves in America and Germany have been proven greatly exaggerated. For details, see http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=1878
In brief, back in 1999, the US government estimated that 50,000 sex slaves were brought into the country annually. The feds began funding programs to combat the problem and ended up identifying only 1,362 victims since 2000. That’s 1,362 too many, but also a far cry from the number of purported victims.
Likewise, before the 2006 World Cup in Germany, it was alleged that 40,000 sex slaves would be imported to service the soccer fans. Here’s what the EU reported after the event:
“The reports – Council of the European Union documents 5006/1/07 and 5008/7 – are now available and they reveal a huge magnitude of error in the claims made by campaigners that were splashed across media headlines around the world (2). The five cases are 8,000 times less than the 40,000 predicted.
“‘The increase in forced prostitution and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation during the 2006 World Cup in Germany which was feared by some did not materialize’, concludes one report. ‘There was no sign whatsoever of the alleged 40,000 prostitutes/forced prostitutes – a figure repeatedly reported, also in international media – who were to be brought to Germany for the 2006 World Cup.’”
Is it possible that advocacy groups who exist to combat social problems occasionally exaggerate the extent of the problem to garner more attention and to justify more funding?
Good facts thanks
thanks 4 all the facts and i just want to say that slavery should have ended a long time ago and it still hasn’t and that’s a problem cause the government is not doing anything about
what about those under the radar? that didnt get caught? that were smart enough to make there money without the police/ officials knowing?
omg i dont like this not at all
i dont think its fair that people are treated like crap and forced to work.
FREE THE SLAVES!!!
i think that slavery is wrong because they have no right to make people to stuff that they don’t want to. And if bthey don’t want to then they shouldn’t have to do it. Ecspecially children because they are innocent children. What are they going to grow up to be slaves for the rest of thieir lives!!! It’s just not right to make people do what they really don’t want to do!!! So I think that youo should go to the president and say to him ” That their should be a law againist slavery because, the people have hands so make them use them!!!”
FREE THE SLAVES BEFORE I DO IT BY MYSELF BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING THROUGH STUFF THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>=I
Have any of you ever worked for corporate America before? I don’t know about it, but that experience made me think of the slavery they had back in the 1800′s in the U.S. Truly a maddening experience, working for corporate America.
To get rid of slavery, we need equality of pay & equality of races. So until racism & sexism ends, there will be no need to eliminate slavery. So goes the mindset of those that practice it. btw, China is an overflow of slavery, and I don’t know why we export jobs over there. Just another reason for them to choose male children over female; because females can’t physically work as long hours as males.
I think that know one should be forced to work or to do anything . People should be free. so
FREE ALL SLAVES !!!!!!!!!
slave owners are sick, greedy people who have nothing better to do than torure other people just for the money. but 25 years is too long a time for slavery to be abolished – millions of slaves could be dead by then and more made. we need to work harder to get rid of it once and for all now so that it is at least 3/4 abolished by 2012
these are some really good facts for my project and most likely i think they are all true i dont think slavery is a good thing but these facts is all i need for my project
this is very crul
Thats a lot of hooplah for one little patty.
was a very excellent thing to learn in life right know i am going to show everybody ths video when i get home today
OMB i understand this video bt any of us will never understand what these people go through @sum1 i am TOTALLY with you
i think it iswrong freeeeee theeeemm noooooowwwwww!!!
i do not agree with slavery
the people who have slaves are just lazy fat discustingly mean and cruel
I love slavery..
i fink its so tite dat pplz do dis kinda shit orrrrrrrrrrrrrr wot xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SLAVERY SUCK
i think slavery is very wrong, to make the black people do that makes me freak, the people who decided to start this should be shot in the face, my say.
yup