Slavery

[DrLeftover]

10 March 2014

The ILO provides estimates for different world regions and its report suggests Asia has the most slaves - 11.7m

Another measurement of global slavery comes out with a much higher worldwide total - the Global Slavery Index says there are 29.8m, half of which are in India.

"There is trafficking of young women and boys into commercial sexual exploitation," says lead author Kevin Bales, a professor of contemporary slavery at the University of Hull. "There's slavery in carpet weaving, mining and ship breaking."

The most common form is called collateral debt bondage, which involves people who have borrowed money pledging themselves and their family as bonded labourers to the loan shark or slaveholder, which can carry on through generations until the debt is paid.

The index, which ranks 162 countries, puts China, Pakistan and Nigeria behind India as the four countries with the largest numbers of slaves. Meanwhile, the top spot per head of population is Mauritania in West Africa, followed by Haiti.

Even the US is estimated to have around 60,000 slaves, among them temporary visa holders and domestic servants. There are 4,426 in the UK, which currently has an anti-slavery bill going through Parliament.

Alex Balch of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool, says: "The Global Slavery Index is pushing this idea that we should be recasting trafficking and forced labour and call them both - modern slavery. Calling these people slaves and calling it slavery is in order to garner political action."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26513804

To start-
Is "bond labor" really slavery?

If so, then is "contract labor" the same thing?

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't see how it's entirely legal to bind your (unborn) family into servitude without their consent. I don't know about you, but here we have the option to inherit only if the gains outweigh the debts.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Lets not forget just about the entire middle east has all the women there as slaves.