Modern Day Slavery In The Lion And The Slave

Aesop fables “The lion and the slave” illustrates the beginning of a friendship between two adversaries. A slave, is mistreated by his master, so he attempts to escape by running away into a forest. After a while, he stops to rest, but encounters a fiercely roaring lion. The slave fears that he will be eaten, but in fact the lion is roaring from the pain of a thorn in its paw. He helps the lion by pulling out the thorn and washing the wound. Soon afterwards, The Slave is recaptured by his master, and imprisoned. His punishment will be to be fed to a lion in the big arena, watched by the Emperor and a large crowd. However, the lion turns out to be the same one that the slave had helped, and therefore he greets the slave in a friendly way.
The practice still continues today in one form or another in every country in the world. From women forced into prostitution, children and adults forced to work in agriculture, domestic work, or factories and sweatshops producing goods for global supply chains, entire families forced to work for nothing to pay off generational debts; or girls forced to marry older men, these illegal practices still infect the contemporary world.
Human Trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where human beings are controlled and exploited for profit. Perpetrators use force, fraud or coercion to control and profit from victims through sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, or the removal of organs. Although human trafficking violates international and national laws, it is a rapidly growing criminal industry. According to the International Labor Organization, human trafficking generates $150 billion in illegal profits each year. October 9, 2015 a smuggler was caught transporting 40 illegal immigrants crammed inside a semi tractor-trailer parked outside a convenience store near San Antonio, Texas. Hands were spotted hanging out of the rear door of the truck, where the temperature was said to be more than 100 degrees. A 33 year old man was arrested for smuggling 28 men, seven women and four
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime of detected trafficking victims 53% are subjected to sexual exploitation. This includes movement across borders, as well as within the victim’s own country. On October 11, 2015 three men from New Jersey and one from South Carolina face human trafficking charges involving a 14 year old girl who was forced into prostitution.
Debt Bondage is a type of forced labor, involving a debt that cannot be paid off in a reasonable time. The employer or enforcer artificially inflates the amount of debt, adds exorbitant interest, and/or charges for living expenses, deducting little or nothing from the debt and increasing the amount of time the individual must work. It is a cycle of debt where there is no hope for freedom. Debt bondage is also known as debt slavery or bonded labor. History has proven that it takes a war to make great social change. Many have debated issues using rhetoric and social movements of a particular period of time, but major changes that affected people on a global scale happened after major events in our history. Even today we continue to treat human beings of various social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds as personal property or enslave them for our own personal