There are still about 46 million people that live in what would be described as slavery. The term modern slavery may include debt bondage, forced marriage and sexual exploitation. With India having the highest number of slaves at 18 million, 58 percent of people living in modern slavery are in five Asian countries. In addition India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have large numbers of people in forced labor conditions.
To find out how you can help to fight against this global injustice click the following:
End Modern Slavery Initiative Act of 2015
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48037#.V2f3UNIrLIU
http://www.un.org/en/events/slaveryabolitionday/
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/slave-route/modern-forms-of-slavery/
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/almost-46-million-people-live-in-modern-slavery/3357487.html
This is disgusting, how can people of today still be so cruel to other people? 46 million is no small number and it is unacceptable that humans continue to exploit other humans. It shocks me the most to know that India has the highest number of modern day slaves since my ancestry is from there. We all deserve to have free lives and being bound to someone else’s will is horrible.
Vizi0420 • Sep 7, 2016 at 2:02 pm
I concur with what was said, no man or woman should ever feel less valuable than another. We all have value and different things to bring to the table. We are all slaves to debt and to the media constantly bombarding us. SO MUCH nowadays we deal with some sort of discrimination, whether it be religion or skin or sexual preference. People get judged automatically. It seems to be a human trait to read a books cover, and no matter how hard we try, or how open we are, we judge.
GucciJefe • Sep 7, 2016 at 1:54 pm
I don’t like the idea of slavery either. however, these countries have problems they face everyday and they have nothing they can do about it. These people live in poverty and its the only way to survive for some of them.