Thursday, October 17, 2013
30 million people still live in slavery, human rights group says
By Lynn
The Global Slavery Index published by the Austrlia-based Walk Free Foundation reported that almost 30 million people in the world are living in modern-day slavery.
This index is supported by the former U.S Secretary Hillary clinton, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
It says the African nation of Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan and India have the highest number of slaves in proportion of the population.
Also, China and Russia are in the top list of countries with large number of slaves.
The index says, slavery includes domestic servitude, forced brgging, forced labor, human traffcking, the sale and exploitation of children and force marriage.
The U.S was ranked 134th, worse than Barbados (135), South Korea(137), Hong Kong (141), Costa Rica(146), and Cuba (149).
The reason why U.S is in low risk is that it is the destinations for human trafficking because of the demand for cheap labour.
The report said that the countries(U.K. , Ireland, Island) who got the best rankings still have people in modern-slavery, too which is estimated 4,200-4,600 people.
How can there still be slavery in this modern world?
Are they adopting an expedient?
This article reminds me of the history of Haiti.
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by Corentin
ReplyDeleteAs longer as we have poor and rich countries, "slavery" is unavoidable.
It's very sad, but I think it's a reality. We could decrease these numbers but not cancel it.
For instance, there will always be rich people who prefer hire illegal workers to earn more money, and poor people who left their country and accept every working conditions.
by Vanilla Tang
ReplyDeleteIt is the first time that I know the wide definition of slavery.I once thought that just forced labor and human traffcking are included in the category of slavery.
In my perspective,the problem of great gap between rich and poor leads to the existence of slavery.
By Ryosuke
ReplyDeleteHello.
It's so surprising that there are a lot of slaves even now. I think the countries that have poor economy or some unique traditions are likely to have slaves. Also, India has some class of people, so they might have been keeping this tradition.
By Elaine
ReplyDeleteI really appreiciate your news.
I never expected there is still such a huge number of people who are slaved by this modern society,which we attribute as vibrant and civilized.
Slaves uninterruptedly struggled for their freedom and rights since the very first day when slavery existed, but most of them are willing to be slaved in nowadays situation. In this civilized world, we changed the term "slavery" to "cheap labor" so as to justify all our behaviours and no one seems to unravel the logic behind it.