People Shouldn't Be Bought and Sold
Today is International Anti-Slavery Day. Despite the British Empire finally giving up slavery in 1833 and the USA, somewhat unwillingly, doing so in the late 1860s, there are more people enslaved today than ever before.
People, including children as young as four or five, are enslaved as sex workers, domestic servants, beggars, cannabis farmers, at nail bars, in car washes, in garment factories making cheap clothes . . . In fact in any kind of work that has potential to make money for the slave 'owners'.
These days a person is trafficked into some form of slavery every 30 seconds. The average age of those trafficked is twelve-years-old. The main export of Moldova is young women, into prostitution.
If you follow the News then you'll have heard of various people kept as domestic slaves being found and finally released. Or girls (mostly), in the UK, who are vulnerable, perhaps are 'in Care', and have been groomed then passed around groups of men for sex. Modern Slavery could be happening near you, Dear Reader. It could be happening near me.
Modern Slavery is still as much slavery as ever. The only 'modern' thing about this slavery is that it is happening now, in the twenty-first century. It should be stopped, and it's up to us to work towards stopping it. One such organisation involved is Stop the Traffik, there are others.
Y'all have a good day now! However badly it goes it won't be as bad as the day had by a Modern Slave
People, including children as young as four or five, are enslaved as sex workers, domestic servants, beggars, cannabis farmers, at nail bars, in car washes, in garment factories making cheap clothes . . . In fact in any kind of work that has potential to make money for the slave 'owners'.
These days a person is trafficked into some form of slavery every 30 seconds. The average age of those trafficked is twelve-years-old. The main export of Moldova is young women, into prostitution.
If you follow the News then you'll have heard of various people kept as domestic slaves being found and finally released. Or girls (mostly), in the UK, who are vulnerable, perhaps are 'in Care', and have been groomed then passed around groups of men for sex. Modern Slavery could be happening near you, Dear Reader. It could be happening near me.
Modern Slavery is still as much slavery as ever. The only 'modern' thing about this slavery is that it is happening now, in the twenty-first century. It should be stopped, and it's up to us to work towards stopping it. One such organisation involved is Stop the Traffik, there are others.
Y'all have a good day now! However badly it goes it won't be as bad as the day had by a Modern Slave