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9/21/2013

 
Charges in the US have been dropped against a Saudi princess who was accused of human trafficking after a Kenyan maid said her passport was taken and she was forced to work for meager pay. According to the ruling, the maid falsified her claim to gain entry into the country.

This brings the shocking facts of modern slavery to the forefront.

Picturewww.antislavery.org: cotton in Uzbekistan
Although enslaved labor was abolished in 19th century, slavery still exists today despite its modern forms differing from the captured Africans transported to work in a foreign land. Link to Anti-Slavery here.

According to the International Labour Organisation, nearly twenty-one million men, women and children around the world are captive. In the 21st century people are still at the complete mercy of their masters, sold like objects, and forced to work for little or no pay.


Many different points distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:

v  forced to work—through mental or physical threat;

v  owned or controlled, usually through real or implied mental or physical abuse;

v  dehumanized, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';

v  physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.

Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, gender and races.

Nowadays, bonded labor affects millions of people around the world, with biggest numbers in South East Asia. At the start, people take, or are tricked into taking, a loan for which they are unable to ever pay off. Some bonded laborers receive basic food and shelter as payment for their work, but due to penalties and rates, no matter how hard they work they are never able to pay off the loan.


Pictureblogs.state.gov.
Child Slavery, which includes child labor and child trafficking, affects an estimated 5.5 million children around the world.

Early and forced marriage predominately affects women and girls who are married without choice, forced into lives of servitude often accompanied by physical violence and have no realistic choice of leaving the marriage.

Many forms of slavery involve more than one element. For example, trafficking often involves an advance payment for the trip and organizing a promised job abroad which is borrowed from the traffickers. Once at the destination, the victims are told they cannot leave the job until the debt is paid.

How could such inequality, and, in the case of children, still exist in our world today?


Amy link
9/20/2013 10:23:48 pm

You got me, Francene. I don't know how people can be this cruel, to make innocent chidlren into slaves. I don't understand it, either.

Francene Stanley link
9/21/2013 02:40:10 am

I only hope things will change when people become more aware.

Gary E. Weller link
9/21/2013 12:09:44 am

It is sad, but indentured servitude will exist as long as anyone is willing to take advantage of someone else.

Francene Stanley link
9/21/2013 02:40:59 am

You're right. What makes people so uncaring and greedy? I wish I knew.

Treathyl FOX link
9/21/2013 02:41:53 am

It's just temporary. This isn't the real life anyway. They are probably a lot of people who were slaves in this world who are eternally happy now. Parable of the rich man by Jesus Christ. Some say it was a simple fictional story to illustrate a profound truth. Some say it was a true story. I believe it was a true story.

Francene Stanley link
9/21/2013 07:05:02 pm

A suffering is temporary. However, the pain is just as real in the present moment.

Treathyl FOX
9/23/2013 01:32:51 am

Yes mam. I sure do know that!


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    Born in Australia, I moved to Britain half way through my long life.

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