Human trafficking: the modern day slave trade

Average price of a slave 200 years ago: $40,000. Average price of a slave now: $90.
Check out our special slideshow on human trafficking on: www.trust.org/slideshow/?id=0e...
Human trafficking is a lucrative industry that affects women and men alike from around the world. The trafficking industry makes an estimated $32 billion in profit annually. Trafficking is a transnational organized crime that profits from the increasing demand for cheap labor and commercial sex.
There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history -- and closer to home than you might expect. A key focus of the inaugural Trust Women conference, co-hosted by Thomson Reuters Foundation and the International Herald Tribune in London on December 2012, was the global scourge of trafficking and modern-day slavery.
Exactly how many people are enslaved is impossible to know. Estimates range from 27 million, cited by advocacy group Free the Slaves, to the International Labour Organisation's figure of 20.9 million people.
Transcript:
Tick if the following apply to you:
Has your passport or ID been confiscated by your employer?
Are you accompanied wherever you go?
Does someone always answer questions on your behalf?
Are you forced to live and work in the same place?
Are you bullied or shouted at?
Are you physically abused?
Does your employer make sexual advances?
Are you denied adequate food?
Denied appropriate clothes?
Medical care?
Time off?
Sleep?
Do your wages go to repaying an impossibly large debt?
If you answered yes to some or all of these questions, you may be one of a not-so-exclusive club.
You're a slave.
Obama: "When a man, desperate for work, finds himself in a factory or on a fishing boat or in a field, working, toiling, for little or no pay, and beaten if he tries to escape -- that is slavery.
When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving -- that's slavery.
When a little girl is sold by her impoverished family -- girls my daughters' age -- runs away from home, or is lured by the false promises of a better life, and then imprisoned in a brothel and tortured if she resists -- that's slavery."
Viala Mystere, 17, former domestic slave in Haiti
When I got to my auntie, after two days I was washing the floor, bathing her baby and her kids, going to get water for her.
The son of the pastor called me and he came into the dark room where I was in. He put his hand on my mouth, and told me to keep quiet. After that he raped me.
Kevin Bailes: "To be a slave, you are under the complete control of another person and that control is maintained by violence or the threat of violence...."
Most people in slavery are caught up in those dirty, dangerous, demeaning jobs that are at the bottom of the economic ladder. So, mining by hand, cutting down forests with an axe, doing the kind of quarry work where you're digging rocks out of the ground, farming at a basic subsistence level, cooking for people, cleaning for people, dragging pieces of old ships or machinery and recycling operation... that falls to slaves.
Theresa Kerketa, a rescued slave in India: "In one house, the madam used to punch and hit me with a rolling pin for not cooking the food quickly or forgetting to wash clothes. In another, they locked me in the bathroom and gave me the skin of watermelons to eat with dry chapattis.
No one knows exactly how many slaves there are today -- but figures from the International Labour Organisation give a good indication.
Worldwide, almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour. Take out just over 2 million of them, who are forced labourers of the state -- working in prisons, say. That leaves almost 19 million people who you might safely consider to be slaves.
11.4 million are women and girls.
4.5 million are in the sex industry.
More than 14 million do work like farming, construction, household chores or manufacturing.
Nine million are trafficked internally or internationally.
And almost 11.8 million are slaves in their places of origin.
Most forced labourers are in the Asia-Pacific region: involuntary domestic workers, girls trafficked into prostitution, forced child labourers, victims of debt bondage.
Next comes Africa. In countries like Niger and Mauritania, it's not uncommon to be born into slavery.
And in countries in conflict, many children are forced to serve as fighters, porters, cooks and sex slaves.
Then comes Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Developed Economies and European Union have their share of slaves. So do Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries. Last comes the Middle East.
Dehumanised. Bought. Sold. Controlled. Threatened. Abused. That is the face of modern slavery.
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[@animeempire4878]

This is Sad! We need more people to realize and Fight against this.

[@Dayglodaydreams]

I had a lady boss inappropriately flirt with me a few times (purely verbal). Ironic that the same person was sympathetic when I had a meltdown about...past stuff (don't anyone dare ask). She'd been in and out of drug court herself. Even though she was my boss sometimes I was unsure about her formal education (I had to help her find the tilde on her keyboard. She thought I was "smart" because of that). I still have a lot in spite of awkward ethically negative work stuff.

[@asdfbill8020]

I seriously doubt the park service employee foreign you see do this simpler because it's illegal. The get a cushy summer job us local citizens never even get a chance to even hear about. They work and send money back home. They're not out blowing their money in the bars like us teens might do. This video describes a bad scene which isn't truthful.. they get citizenship papers and go to yuniverity scholarship all paid. This video will steer these kids imyo the wrong hands for surel is all. They might owe money for international recruitment and initial fees might be taken out of their checks thee first month maybe. It's all fair if you get hurt on your job you get a workman's comp check the rest of their lives. US dollars go far in Africa or Asia.

[@miixii987]

Sadly, as you can see no one cares...

[@fatkaiju6209]

Add child support to the list under debt bandage.