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Message: <blockquote data-quote="saharaz" data-source="post: 2900554" data-attributes="member: 99166">Current situation in global slaveryAlthough outlawed in nearly all countries today, forms of slavery still exist in some parts of the world. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-0#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-1#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_the_Slaves" target="_blank">Free the Slaves</a> (FTS), an advocacy group linked with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavery_International" target="_blank">Anti-Slavery International</a>, there are 27 million people (although some put the number as high as 200 million) in virtual slavery today, spread all over the world.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-2#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> According to FTS, these slaves represent the largest number of people that has ever been in slavery at any point in world history and the smallest percentage of the total human population that has ever been enslaved at once.FTS claims that present-day slaves have been sold for as little as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USD" target="_blank">US$</a>40, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali" target="_blank">Mali</a>, for young adult male laborers, or as much as US$1,000 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" target="_blank">HIV</a>-free, young females, suitable for work in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel" target="_blank">brothels</a>. The lower limit represents the lowest price that there has ever been for a slave: the price of a comparable male slave in 1850 in the United States would have been about US$25,800 in present-day terms<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-inflation-US-3#cite_note-inflation-US-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> (US$1,000 in 1850). That difference, even allowing for differences in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power" target="_blank">purchasing power</a>, is significant. It is probably due to the fact of today's greater <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation" target="_blank">population</a>, making human life cheaper.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>] As a result of the lower price, the economic advantages of present-day slavery are clear.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" target="_blank">clarify</a>]Enslavement is also taking place in parts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank">Africa</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" target="_blank">Middle East</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" target="_blank">South Asia</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-antislaverysociety-4#cite_note-antislaverysociety-4" target="_blank">[5]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Quarterly" target="_blank">Middle East Quarterly</a> reports that slavery is still endemic in Sudan.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-5#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> In June and July 2007, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_slave_scandal" target="_blank">570 people who had been enslaved by brick manufacturers</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanxi" target="_blank">Shanxi</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan" target="_blank">Henan</a> were freed by the Chinese government.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-brickkiln-6#cite_note-brickkiln-6" target="_blank">[7]</a> Among those rescued were 69 children.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-7#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[8]</a> In response, the Chinese government assembled a force of 35,000 police to check northern Chinese brick kilns for slaves, sent dozens of kiln supervisors to prison, punished 95 officials in Shanxi province for dereliction of duty, and sentenced one kiln foreman to death for killing an enslaved worker.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-brickkiln-6#cite_note-brickkiln-6" target="_blank">[7]</a>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania" target="_blank">Mauritania</a> alone, it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population, are enslaved, many of them used as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonded_labour" target="_blank">bonded labour</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-8#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[9]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-9#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[10]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa" target="_blank">Slavery in Mauritania</a> was criminalized in August 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-10#cite_note-10" target="_blank">[11]</a> In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger" target="_blank">Niger</a>, slavery is also a current phenomenon. A Nigerian study has found that more than 800,000 people are enslaved, almost 8% of the population.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-11#cite_note-11" target="_blank">[12]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-12#cite_note-12" target="_blank">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-13#cite_note-13" target="_blank">[14]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmies" target="_blank">Pygmies</a>, the people of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa" target="_blank">Central Africa</a>'s rain forest,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-14#cite_note-14" target="_blank">[15]</a> live in servitude to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu" target="_blank">Bantus</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-15#cite_note-15" target="_blank">[16]</a> Some tribal sheiks in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" target="_blank">Iraq</a> still keep <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Arab" target="_blank">blacks</a>, called Abd, which means servant or slave in Arabic, as slaves.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-16#cite_note-16" target="_blank">[17]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_slavery" target="_blank">Child slavery</a> has commonly been used in the production of cash crops and mining. According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_State" target="_blank">U.S. Department of State</a>, more than 109,000 children were working on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa" target="_blank">cocoa</a> farms alone in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire" target="_blank">Côte d'Ivoire</a> (Ivory Coast) in 'the worst forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor" target="_blank">child labor</a>' in 2002.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-17#cite_note-17" target="_blank">[18]</a>In November 2006, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labour_Organization" target="_blank">International Labour Organization</a> announced it will be seeking "to prosecute members of the ruling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Peace_and_Development_Council" target="_blank">Myanmar junta</a> for crimes against humanity" over the continuous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour" target="_blank">forced labour</a> of its citizens by the military at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" target="_blank">International Court of Justice</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-18#cite_note-18" target="_blank">[19]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-19#cite_note-19" target="_blank">[20]</a> According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Organization" target="_blank">International Labor Organization</a> (ILO), an estimated 800,000 people are subject to forced labour in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar" target="_blank">Myanmar</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-20#cite_note-20" target="_blank">[21]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-21#cite_note-21" target="_blank">[22]</a></blockquote>

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