Slavery alive and well

[alexd]

A new report estimates the number of slaves worldwide.

Learn More About Modern Slavery | walkfree

Estimated number of slaves:

India - 13,956,010
China - 2,949,243
Pakistan - 2,127,132
Nigeria - 701,032
Ethiopia - 651,110
Russia - 516,217
Thailand - 472,811
DR Congo - 462,327
Burma - 384,037
Bangladesh - 343,192


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I wonder if there is a list of the top slaveholder corporations or nations?

 

[g0nz0]

India ~ 1.1%
China ~ 0.2%
Pakistan ~ 1%
Nigeria ~ 0.4%
Ethiopia ~ 0.7%
Russia ~ 0.35%

what are the numbers for modern, non third world countries?

 

[praktik]

Torture is also alive and well

 

[acheron]

apparently there could be as many as 6200 slaves in Canada. Must mean the people who follow Skrillex around.

 

[erika]

I saw a brief blurb on the news this morning that put Pakistan, Mauritania and one other country (also african I believe) as the top three.

My bad: the third country is Haiti: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/1...st-amount-of-modern-slavery-new-global-index/

 

[stryker]

I saw a brief blurb on the news this morning that put Pakistan, Mauritania and one other country (also african I believe) as the top three.

It was Haiti

 

[Dialog]

apparently there could be as many as 6200 slaves in Canada. Must mean the people who follow Skrillex around.

Video game industry

 

[erika]

^
And at one point all the people who were colourizing B&W films!

 

[acheron]

the people who answer phone calls for Rob Ford

 

[praktik]

i imagine in canada its sex trade and human trafficking dumping people off of boats and into sweatshops to pay off their debt....

 

[praktik]

Sex trade slaves are essentially legislated and created by us - as long as sex trade is illegal this is what will happen.

So our moral outrage on the sex trade actually only guarantees that sex slaves continue to exist.

An interesting way that an ostensibly "moral" stand leads to decidedly immoral outcomes.

 

[JamesM]

praktik stop being so observant and live your life..

if you go to work 9 to 5 you're a slave. what was the whole 1% about?

so we got to get our rocks off knowing india is the worst place imaginable. duhh

shit sucks everywhere bro. It's a matter if you're living in the slum in india where buildings fall on you, or getting reemed out in western culture. which is worse?

we're all a slave to money then we die.

no conspiracy. it is what it is.

 

[praktik]

SOunds like someone is unhappy with their work..

 

[JamesM]

what work. oh yeah. I guess that happens. makin' money. makin' money. shakin money'

 

[erika]

praktik stop being so observant and live your life..

if you go to work 9 to 5 you're a slave. what was the whole 1% about?

so we got to get our rocks off knowing india is the worst place imaginable. duhh

shit sucks everywhere bro. It's a matter if you're living in the slum in india where buildings fall on you, or getting reemed out in western culture. which is worse?

we're all a slave to money then we die.

no conspiracy. it is what it is.

Well that's definitely a first world outlook on things to say the least!

 

[JamesM]

well I live here and trying to hack it rite? People over there had more than enough time to sort their shit out to get to a standard of living. and It's just mental. So they come take our jobs and move here, and displace us now.

I have no sympathy.

 

[Wiseman]

Well the US has at least one slave:

 

[WestsideWax]

well I live here and trying to hack it rite? People over there had more than enough time to sort their shit out to get to a standard of living. and It's just mental. So they come take our jobs and move here, and displace us now.

I have no sympathy.

Who's this "us" you're referring to?

 

[praktik]

I dunno man I just wish when they got here they could just, like, be Canadian. I mean like - you can't even say Merry Christmas anymore!

 

[JamesM]

Who's this "us" you're referring to?

Fair enough Westside. In my humble experience.

And that pic is me, thx Praktik.

 

[deep]

Well that's definitely a first world outlook on things to say the least!

To say the least indeed. Did he just quote a Verve lyric?

 

[Big Cheese]

He'll take you down the only road he's ever been down!

You know? the one that takes you to the places...
where all the things meet!

 

[praktik]

Breadth of modern slavery exposed by sobering new report | The Verge

more here

 

[deep]

He'll take you down the only road he's ever been down!

You know? the one that takes you to the places...
where all the things meet!

He's a lucky man...Happiness, more or less, a lack of slavery, something in his liberty

 

[hummus]

Germany and the Scandinavian countries don't have a set minimum wage.