Posted on 11/17/2014 9:53:17 AM PST by Citizen Zed
The Global Slavery Index published by the Walk Free Foundation finds that 35.8 million men, women and children live in modern slavery due to incidents like trafficking, debt bondage or forced marriages. Modern slavery contributes to the production of at least 122 goods from 58 countries.
The prevalence is estimated to have increased since 2013, the report notes, but that’s largely thanks to more precise measuring.
Among the findings: The continents with the most difficulty eradicating slavery are Africa and Asia; Europe has the fewest modern-day slaves; and the nations with governments making strong efforts to prevent slavery despite low resources are Georgia, the Philippines, Jamaica and Macedonia. Beyond that, all countries except North Korea have legislation criminalizing some form of modern slavery.
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/johnny
LOL! I love satire.
As long as the queeranus is followed SLAVERY WILL BE LEGAL! It's shariaa compliant!
The REAL slaves are those of us who are forced to pay taxes to a government hell bent on tyranny.
“36 Million People Live in Modern Slavery”
I think there are more taxpayers than that.
There’s 300 million here in the US.
Yeah, but only about 100 million of us are slaves (i.e. taxpayers)
They forgot to add all of the people who’ve sold themselves into indentured servitude for their student loans.
The number is too low!!! Just think of the total population of the Islamic countries and then realize that half of them are female. That is the base value for slavery numbers in the world. Any other countries that have slavery only add to the base value.
There - I have fixed it.
The number is too low!!! Just think of the total population of the Islamic countries and then realize that half of them are female. That is the base value for slavery numbers in the world. Any other countries that have slavery only add to the base value.
There - I have fixed it.
What about all those in the US dependant on the government for survival. Is that not also a form of slavery?
if the study doesn’t include the US of A, it is a flawed study. Try to sell baked goods from your kitchen. uber your car in Philly.
Try to not sell backed goods to homosexuals, try to not buy health insurance, try to avoid income tax, try to avoid paying a bitter ex-wife the divorce settlement, try to avoid your master's surveillance, try to purchase a 100watt lightbulb, try in the west to collect rainwater that falls on your roof, try to avoid paying rent for your land (property tax). If your life is lived away from the city try to see your legislator with out having to pay parking fee of $10 or more.
The question is not how many are enslaved, the question is how much are they enslaved and what mechanisms are used to keep them on the metaphoric plantation.
Does that include mortgages and credit cards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline
1900–present
1902: The Ethiopian Empire abolishes slavery (though it was not legally and officially abolished by Emperor Haile Selassie until 1942).
1906: China formally abolishes slavery effective 31 January 1910, when all adult slaves were converted into hired labourers and the young were freed upon reaching age 25.[18]
1912: Siam (Thailand) formally abolishes all slavery. The act of selling a person into slavery was abolished in 1897, but slavery itself was not outlawed at that time.[65]
1921: Nepal abolishes slavery.[66][67]
1922: Morocco abolishes slavery.[68]
1923: Afghanistan abolishes slavery.[69]
1924: Iraq abolishes slavery.
1924: League of Nations appoints a Temporary Slavery Commission.
1926, 25 September: Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery bound all signatories to end slavery.
1928: Iran abolishes slavery.[70]
1928: Domestic slavery practised by local African elites abolished in Sierra Leone.[71] Though established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s.
1935: Italian General Emilio De Bono proclaims slavery to be abolished in the Ethiopian Empire.[72]
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.[73]
1946: Fritz Sauckel, procurer of slave labor for Nazi Germany, is convicted at the Nuremberg trials and executed as a war criminal.
1948: UN Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights bans slavery globally.[74]
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.
1959: Slavery in Tibet is abolished by China after the Dalai Lama flees.
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (though it was not made illegal until 2003).[75]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.
1964: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[76][77][78]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[75]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[79]
Although slavery is now de jure illegal in all countries, de facto practices akin to it continue today in many places throughout the world.[80][81][82][83]
That’s not true!
Only privileged white male Southerners ever kept slaves in the whole history of the world.
Ask Jesse or Al.
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