Semantics
I've been reading articles about human trafficking in the UK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6702471.ece
And I was wondering, why don't they call it slavery, which is what it is. Slavery which has been outlawed for many hundreds of years (in England since 1108) and yet as it exists today, the term given to it is trafficking, which is less emotive and sounds, somehow, less dreadful...
EDIT: Huh. Article in the Guardian points out that the UN has labelled it modern day slavery http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/border-immigration-officials-human-trafficking
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6702471.ece
And I was wondering, why don't they call it slavery, which is what it is. Slavery which has been outlawed for many hundreds of years (in England since 1108) and yet as it exists today, the term given to it is trafficking, which is less emotive and sounds, somehow, less dreadful...
EDIT: Huh. Article in the Guardian points out that the UN has labelled it modern day slavery http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/border-immigration-officials-human-trafficking