12 MILLION PEOPLE IN SLAVERY
12 MILLION PEOPLE IN SLAVERY
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
SCOTSMAN - At least 12 million people, most of them children, are trapped in slavery, a human rights activist said. Children are ensnared in pornography and prostitution and exploited as cheap labor and child soldiers. "They are more vulnerable, cheaper to hire and less likely to demand higher wages or better working conditions," Sarah Williams, of Anti-Slavery International, said of the 8.4 million children who are slaves. . . Hundreds of thousands of people in Burma have been forced to work as farm labourers, army porters or construction workers for little or no pay. Women are trafficked from Albania and Moldova and forced into prostitution in France, Italy and Britain. Men are trafficked in Mexico to work on US farms. The child sold as a camel jockey, the woman forced into prostitution, the migrant worker whose passport is confiscated by his gang master boss - all in effect are slaves, she said. She was speaking at a London seminar reviewing how Britain plans to mark the bicentenary next year of the abolition of its slave trade.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
SCOTSMAN - At least 12 million people, most of them children, are trapped in slavery, a human rights activist said. Children are ensnared in pornography and prostitution and exploited as cheap labor and child soldiers. "They are more vulnerable, cheaper to hire and less likely to demand higher wages or better working conditions," Sarah Williams, of Anti-Slavery International, said of the 8.4 million children who are slaves. . . Hundreds of thousands of people in Burma have been forced to work as farm labourers, army porters or construction workers for little or no pay. Women are trafficked from Albania and Moldova and forced into prostitution in France, Italy and Britain. Men are trafficked in Mexico to work on US farms. The child sold as a camel jockey, the woman forced into prostitution, the migrant worker whose passport is confiscated by his gang master boss - all in effect are slaves, she said. She was speaking at a London seminar reviewing how Britain plans to mark the bicentenary next year of the abolition of its slave trade.
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bin66 - 3. Nov, 00:30
