Assignment 6.1 Modern Slavery
There are tens of millions of people in slavery today. Estimates say 21 to 36 million people are enslaved worldwide. People forced to work without pay, under threat of violence and unable to walk away.
Facts about modern slavery:
Source: freetheslaves.net
Go to assignment 6.1 to read an article about modern slavery.
Facts about modern slavery:
- There are an estimated 27 million slaves alive today. The majority, up to 20 million, are bonded laborers in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Today’s slave population is over five times greater than the population of the island of Ireland.
- Slavery was legally abolished in the British Empire in 1838, in Brazil in 1888, in Burma in 1929, in Saudi Arabia in 1962 and in Mauritania in 1980. However, slavery still exists in all these areas.
- An agricultural slave cost the equivalent of $50,000 to $100,000 at today’s prices in Mississippi in 1850. An equivalent slave in India in 1999 cost just $90.
- In India or Nepal, a person can be trapped into a lifetime of hard labour just to pay the interest on as little as $36.
- In one area of the South of Sudan, 3,000 children from a Christian population of 150,000 were abducted during 1998 to work as laborers.
- About 14% of Haiti’s under-18 population, or 300,000 children, are restaveks – children working as domestic slaves. Thirty percent receive only one meal per day.
- An estimated 40,000 women and young girls from Burma are forced in the sex industry in Thailand each year.
- The CIA and US State Department estimate that over 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the US each year.
- Between 1988 and 1998 there were over 100,000 slaves on 226 estates in Brazil, according to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT)
Source: freetheslaves.net
Go to assignment 6.1 to read an article about modern slavery.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein