Slavery Today
Let’s Find a Way to End Slavery Today
When most people think of slavery they will think of the bondage of African slaves in the Americas of the south working the cotton fields and growing tobacco. Even though millions of African slaves were brought here and kept as slaves for 200 years, slavery today is alive and thriving all over the world in as many as 160 countries such as
China, Brazil, the United States and in many areas in Africa. Slavery today comes in many different forms. It is illegal in most countries but people without regard for human life have come up with many ways to exploit and use impoverished and disadvantaged people for sex trafficking, slave labor in sweatshops and domestic servitude for gain of wealth and power. …show more content…
Finally, as highlighted earlier, the
shortage of marriageable women has fueled the demand for the trafficking of women for forced marriages.” (www.humantrafficking.org)
Other countries where sex trafficking is big business is India. Nicholas D. Kristof writes in depth articles about human and sex trafficking all over the world for The New
York Times and is an advocate in the fight against these . He has visited cities such as
Kolkata, India to help rescue young girls from pimps being held against their will for prostitution. Kristof gets asked to go on these raids by activist against these heinous brothels because of his work and how he exposes them in his articles. During this particular trip to Kolkata along with investigators from a Washington based group called
International Justice Mission, who are fighting to end human trafficking, enter into a brothel to save a 15 year old girl her pimps call Chutki or “little girl.” They sneak up to the third floor of the brothel and find her with 3 other girls waiting for customers. The pimps, thinking they are customers, ask if they want to buy them. They decline
When most people think of slavery they will think of the bondage of African slaves in the Americas of the south working the cotton fields and growing tobacco. Even though millions of African slaves were brought here and kept as slaves for 200 years, slavery today is alive and thriving all over the world in as many as 160 countries such as
China, Brazil, the United States and in many areas in Africa. Slavery today comes in many different forms. It is illegal in most countries but people without regard for human life have come up with many ways to exploit and use impoverished and disadvantaged people for sex trafficking, slave labor in sweatshops and domestic servitude for gain of wealth and power. …show more content…
Finally, as highlighted earlier, the
shortage of marriageable women has fueled the demand for the trafficking of women for forced marriages.” (www.humantrafficking.org)
Other countries where sex trafficking is big business is India. Nicholas D. Kristof writes in depth articles about human and sex trafficking all over the world for The New
York Times and is an advocate in the fight against these . He has visited cities such as
Kolkata, India to help rescue young girls from pimps being held against their will for prostitution. Kristof gets asked to go on these raids by activist against these heinous brothels because of his work and how he exposes them in his articles. During this particular trip to Kolkata along with investigators from a Washington based group called
International Justice Mission, who are fighting to end human trafficking, enter into a brothel to save a 15 year old girl her pimps call Chutki or “little girl.” They sneak up to the third floor of the brothel and find her with 3 other girls waiting for customers. The pimps, thinking they are customers, ask if they want to buy them. They decline