There are more slaves today than at any time in human history, reported Benjamin Skinner, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. An estimated 27 million people in the world are forced to work, held through fraud, under threat of violence, for no pay beyond subsistence, in forced marriages, in sex-trafficking and prostitution. Though mostly illegal and called by different names, slavery nevertheless exists today in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Southeast Asia, Romania, Sudan, Haiti, Brazil, Latin America, and even in the United States.
It was reported in Time magazine, Jan. 18, 2010: Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history..........
(Existing 4um threads include There Are 870,000 Slaves in Modern-Day America; Lest we forgetThousands of slaves in Israel, global study finds; US Senate to retroactively punish runaway tax slaves. NN)
EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! It has recently been discovered that animals have feelings! SOMEBODY TELL THE SCIENTISTS.
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