Types of Modern Slavery
Forced labour 46% Prostitution
27% Domestic Service ( ie cleaning services)
10% Agriculture
5% Sweatshops/Factories
4% Restaurant/Hotel Work
8% Sexual exploitation of children and Forced marriage.
Bonded Slavery This is a form of slavery when the slave is in Debt and they owe a person money, the reasons they owe money is if they needed money to pay for medicine for a child or to but food for their family. The person they owe money to will enslave them until they have paid off their loan.
To this day there are still people living their life in slavery. According to the charity Free the Slaves in 2008 'There are more people in slavery now than any other time in human history', they estimated that is was over 27 million people living in slavery worldwide. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Centre estimated that 3 in ever 4 victims of slavery are women and that over half the victims are children. Former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright had claimed that slavery is " the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world " and it was estimated that each year the slave industry rakes in a ridiculous $32 billion which goes to the criminals who continue to in force slavery, the charity free the slaves compared this sum of money to an expense in the US and found that this $32 billion is the same amount that they spend on snack foods every year.
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