• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      The private economy is the main source of the rise, while state-enforced labour counts for one in seven cases of modern slavery, the report adds.

      I wonder if mandatory military service counts for “state-enforced labor”

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        The UN sponsored report uses a pretty liberal definition of slavery to include things like wage theft (which forces workers to stay at a job until they’re fully compensated), sex trafficking, and domestic servitude where the servant’s documents are confiscated so that they can’t flee.

        However, there’s still a hell of a lot whips and chains slavery in Africa and South East Asia. Those slaves serve the excavation and manufacturing industries.

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      Okay, this may come off as unemphatetic but I love the fact that slavery doesn’t give a shit about your sex or wealth. Like, the percentages are almost fully equal, save for actual low income that is almost double what the other percentages are. Other than that, all are equal in the eyes of slavers.

      Shit’s wild. What’s also wild is that these numbers still exists…especially when thinking about Americas or Europe. :|