Modern Day Slavery

Nowadays, slavery still exists. The number of slaves today is higher than  at any point in history.

U.S. President Barack Obama has declared January 2012 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. He said," Around the world, we are monitoring the progress of governments in combating trafficking while supporting programs aimed at its eradication. From forced labor and debt bondage to forced commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary domestic servitude, human trafficking leaves no country untouched.”

Slavery occurs when one person completely controls another person, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control, exploits them economically, pays them nothing and they cannot walk away.

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation.

Chattel slavery, so named because people are treated as the personal property, chattels, of an owner and are bought and sold as commodities, is the original form of slavery. When taking these chattels across national borders it is referred to as Human Trafficking especially when these slaves provide sexual services.

The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and often the people who harvest it are children. Many are slaves to a system that produces something almost all of us consume and enjoy. Human trafficking network and farmers using child labor for an industry offering low prices and little more than broken promises. There are child slaves harvesting cocoa, even though some have never even tasted chocolate and some don't even know what the word "chocolate" means.

Slavery: forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away.

Slavery is not legal anywhere but happens everywhere.

Slaves work in fields, brothels, homes, mines, restaurants- anywhere slaves owners can feed their greed.

I think they are the three most important facts. Slaves are low prices and they have not any rights. Slaves owners find this advantage, then wring every ounce of sweat and blood out of them. Human-Trafficking saw this situation, and sell the slaves to everywhere widely.

We can be volunteers in the Free the Slaves, we can spread it to the world…There are a lot of things that we can do.

Everyone should do something to end slavery.