Slavery today

It is estimated that there are _____ million victims of sex trafficking worldwide.

4.5

____ million girls under 18 were forcibly married in 2003.

51

More than _____ of the world's slaves are children.

1/4

______milion people are trapped in some form of slavery today.

20.9

Sex trafficking

A crime when women, men and/or children are for fully involved in commercial sex acts.

Forced labor

A type of enslavement that captures labor and sexual exploitation. All,other categories of slavery are a subset of forced labor. State authorities, businesses and individuals force coercive labor practices upon people in order to profit or gain from their work.

Forced marriage

An institution or practice where individuals don't have the option to refuse or are promised and married to another by their parents, guardians, relatives, or other people and groups.

What is bad about bonded labor?

Bonded labor is designed to exploit workers. It is cyclical process where repayment is impossible.often times the debt is passed on from generation to generation

Other names for bonded labor

Debt bondage Peonage

What are the six types of slavery

Domestic servitude Sex trafficking Forced labor Bonded labor Child labor Forced marriage

What is the story about bonded labor?

Following the civil war, former slave holders and white Americans needed labor for their workforce, so they found new ways to force African Americans to work. Whites arrested African Americans and then fined them for their various crimes. Former slaves had little money to afford such fines, so white businessmen forced the emancipated slaves to take on debts in exchange for paying them. These former slaves then had a bind over them, and employers exploited them so that the debt could never be repaid.

What is bad about forced labor?

Forced labor is used across the world to produce many products in our Global supply chains. The private economy exploits 90% of the world's forced laborers. Child soldiers fall into this category of enslavement. The desire to produce profit is the largest motivating force behind the institution of slavery.

What is bad about forced marriage?

Forced marriage can be coupled with other forms of slavery. It is often coupled with sex trafficking. People can be forced to marry based on familial deception, cultural tradition, emotional blackmail, and threats of abuse and even death.

How does forced marriage happen?

Forced marriages happen because of pressure from relatives in many cases. Victims often receive threats that lead them to the marriage as the only option. A forced marriage is a marriage in which one of the two people does not agree to it.

How can domestic servitude happen?

It can happen when migrant workers have a debt to repay for their travel. The arrangement between employer and worker can easily transition to a form of slavery especially when employers neglect legal documentation.

How does forced labor happen?

It occurs in state prisons, in convict leasing programs, and in work imposed by the military or rebel armed forces. It is any form of labor under threat. Immigrants can be vulnerable to trafficker because of unfamiliarity with the language, customs or job processes.

Bonded labor

Labor happens when people give themselves into slavery as security against a loan or when they inherit a debt from a relative. It can be made to look like an employment agreement.

How does bonded labor happen?

Laborers begin working to repay a debt but the employer adds to the debt to cover the living cost of the laborer. It becomes impossible for a debt to be repaid. The responsibility is passed down to the children and so on. Migrant laborers are especially vulnerable to this form of enslavement.

What is the story about domestic servitude?

Maria and Sandra Bearden of Texas. Sandra is and upper middle class mother. She wanted a housemaid and nanny but didn't want to pay a lot for the services. She traveled to Mexico where she promised a set of parents that she'd provide an education for their daughter in the US. she smuggled their daughter Maria into the Us and immediately imprisoned her in Texas . Sandra is currently serving a life sentence for trafficking of persons. She sprayed Maria with pepper spray, hit her with brooms and bottles and even sexually assaulted Maria with a garden tool. Sandra even chained Maria to a pole in the backyard and fed her dog feces.

What is bad about child labor?

Poverty leads the children to accept the job they otherwise wouldn't. Adolescents are chosen by traffickers for different reasons. Kids from broken families, runaways and poor children are at a higher risk of being trafficked. Abuse and indoctrination, mixed with alcohol and drug addiction, enable trafficker to enslave these children for years.

How does child labor happen?

Supply needs and industry demand for cheap, unskilled labor are some of the leading causes of child labor. Specifically, production processes that require certain physical attribute like small stature, lead to the employment of children.price pressure encourage suppliers to find the cheapest laborers, children.

What is bad about domestic servitude?

The circumstances of live-in help can create vulnerabilities for the victims. It isolates domestic workers and is conducive to exploitation because authorities can not inspect homes as easily as they can formal workplaces.

Domestic servitude

The seemingly normal practice of live-in help that is used as a cover for the exploitation and control of someone, usually from another country.

What is bad about sex trafficking?

Victims are tricked into sex trafficking. If/when they escape they will continue to suffer from physical and psychological trauma, disease like HIV, drug addiction, malnutrition, and social ostracism. Supply and demand have increased over the years because of the Internet.

Child labor

When children are forced to commit commercial sex acts, are forced into a system of domestic servitude or are employed in occupations that are mentally, physically, or socially and morally harmful.

How does sex trafficking happen?

Worldwide, promises are ways in which traffickers bait and enslave their victims. Indigenous and poor populations are more vulnerable to sex trafficking. Many times people are offered false employment in major cities. Upon arrival these individuals are abused, threatened and sold in the sex industry.