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Daninmo

(119 posts) Sun Aug 23, 2015, 07:40 PM Aug 2015

Slavery around the world

I just watched a piece on the news about a Jewish man help out girls that were sold into slavery by ISIS. How many countries still allow this barbaric awful act? Why do we do business with them, shouldn't we demand that slavery ends with any country we do business with or help out?

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Slavery around the world (Original Post) Daninmo Aug 2015 OP

Countries that still allow it? madville Aug 2015 #1

Sex trafficking is only about 20% of slavery Recursion Aug 2015 #3

Many have fallen from grace around the world seveneyes Aug 2015 #2

More people are in slavery today than in 1860 Recursion Aug 2015 #4

madville

(7,410 posts)

1. Countries that still allow it?

Reply to Daninmo (Original post)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 10:04 PM

Aug 2015

North Korea maybe and some Muslim countries that consider women to be property might qualify.

ISIS isn't a country of course, it's radical Islamists literally interpreting their book which advocates the practice.

I would say the largest form of slavery these days would be sex trafficking, it's everywhere, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

3. Sex trafficking is only about 20% of slavery

Reply to madville (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 10:40 PM

Aug 2015

Most of it is labor, and most of it is in south and east Asia.

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

2. Many have fallen from grace around the world

Reply to Daninmo (Original post)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 10:06 PM

Aug 2015

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

4. More people are in slavery today than in 1860

Reply to Daninmo (Original post)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 10:41 PM

Aug 2015

The US Government has a bureau devoted to studying and preventing human trafficking. They release an annual report (2015's is due out in a month or so IIRC).

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/

It's not exactly happy reading...

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