Modern Day Slavery

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Modern Day Slavery

• By Matt Welsh
• Foreign Policy

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Background Info

• Modern Day Slavery is not like the traditional
  form of slavery.
• It is in every country in the world in some shape
  or form.

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3 Types of Slavery

• Chattel Slavery
• Debt Bondage Slavery
• Sex Slavery

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Chattel Slavery

• When one person is completely owned by another
  and can be inherited as property.
• Traditional type of slavery used when Africans
  were enslaved.

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Chattel Slavery

• Isnt very big anymore because slavery is now
  illegal in all countries and ownership isnt
  needed to be a slave.
• People can force someone to work without pay with
  violence or psychological manipulation.

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Chattel Slavery

• The most known form of chattel slavery in todays
  world comes from wartime in certain countries.
• Countries experiencing troubled times result in
  militia and raider attacking villages and then
  kidnapping and enslaving children and women.

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Debt Bondage Slavery

• A person enters debt bondage when their labor is
  demanded as a means of repayment of a loan, or of
  money given in advance.
• Debt bondage keeps societys lowest classes in
  debt to their masters.

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Debt Bondage Slavery

• Bonded laborers must work for however long the
  master says and must ask permission for their
  every move.
• These people are paying off debts of 10-50 but
  the interests are than they can pay and therefore
  are passed down throughout their generation.

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Sex Slavery

• Sexual slavery is a special case of slavery which
  includes various different practices
• 1. Forced prostitution
• 2. Single-owner sex slavery
• 3. slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes
  where sex is common or permissible

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Sex Slavery

• The majority of people in the sex slavery
  industry are abducted.
• Mostly women and children are kidnapped and
  forced into the harsh conditions of prostitution.

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IEARN Response

• The modern slavery is an absurd, because many
  laws say that everyone is equal onto the law
  and it is irrational because the humans were born
  to be free and do what they want but they cant
  take away the freedom of other person. -- Brazil

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IEARN Response

• I think that we dont have anything like child
  labour and dept bondage, but sex slavery is
  impossible avoid. Of course we are not happy
  about it. Probably its also exploitation, that
  cheap workers from the east are fetched to do
  unpopular work for less money than our own
  workers. We all think really baldy about slavery
  and dept bondage but we couldnt really imagine
  how it is, because we think its not the problem
  in our own country. We think, that sex tourism is
  a bigger problem and we think that it should be
  stopped. --- Brazil

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Current Status

• 27 million men, women and children currently live
  in slavery around the world.
• 500,000 children have been forced into
  prostitution in Brazil
• forced marriages

• Debt bonded labor accounts for some 20 million
  victims
• human trafficking victims in the U.S. runs as
  high as 50,000
• The average price for a slave is 90 but varies.

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What should be done?

• No boycotts, honor slave-free certifications, be
  alert to news of other certifications, look for
  products with Fair Trade certifications, look for
  products with organic, local or union labels and
  avoid companies known to drive prices as low as
  possible.

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Other Solutions

• The U.S. should take the first steps in fighting
  against slavery.
• Increase public awareness
• Support groups that work to end modern day
  slavery
• Ask state representatives/senators to pass
  anti-trafficking laws
• Understand the link between human trafficking and
  commercial, sexual exploitation
• Give money to support local organizations that
  help slaves escape or walk away from slavery.

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Quote

• What good is our economic and political power,
  if we cant use it to free slaves? If we cant
  choose to stop slavery, how can we say that we
  are free?

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Anti-Slavery Organizations

• Anti-slavery International
• Free the Slaves
• The Sage Project
• HumanTrafficking.org
• www.saveaslave.com

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_slavery
• http//images.google.com/
• http//www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/chattel
  slavery.html
• http//www.state.gov/g/rls/rm/2004/31063.htm
• http//www.iabolish.com/slavery_today/factsheet/
• http//archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/03/08/wo
  men.trafficking/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_slavery
• Bitter Harvest. UU World Magazine.