Sex trafficking to forced labour, what is modern slavery?

[Anthea]

From sex trafficking to forced labour, what is modern slavery?

Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, debt bondage, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation

Nearly 46 million people are enslaved around the world, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index published on Tuesday.

While there is no globally agreed definition of modern slavery, some of the key elements are defined below. Many forms of slavery involve more than one of these elements.

BONDED LABOUR: People become bonded labourers after falling into debt and being forced to work for free to repay the lender. Many will never pay off their loans, and debt can be passed down through the generations. Bonded labour has existed for hundreds of years and flourishes in South Asia in agriculture, brick kilns, mills and factories.

DESCENT-BASED SLAVERY: When people are born into slavery because their families belong to a class or caste of "slaves" in countries that have strict hierarchical social structures.

FORCED LABOUR: When people are forced to work, usually for no or inadequate payment, as a result of violence or intimidation. Many find themselves trapped, often in a foreign country, with their passports confiscated by employers, and unable to leave.

EARLY AND FORCED MARRIAGE: When children, usually girls, under 18 years old are married without their consent and forced into sexual and domestic servitude.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: This happens when men, women and children are exploited through the use of violence, deception or coercion and forced to work against their will. A key difference from people smuggling is that trafficking is done for the purpose of exploitation. People can be trafficked for many different forms of exploitation such as forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage and forced organ removal.

ORGAN TRAFFICKING: Organ removal, while not as prevalent as sex or labour trafficking, is part of a thriving black market run by criminal gangs. It is included in the U.N. Trafficking in Persons Protocol as an exploitative practice.

SOURCES: ILO (http://www.ilo.org/), Walk Free Foundation (http://www.walkfreefoundation.org), Free the Slaves (http://www.freetheslaves.net/), Anti-Trafficking Review (http://www.antitraffickingreview.org/in ... atrjournal)

(Reporting by Astrid Zweynert, Editing by Katie Nguyen.; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit http://news.trust.org)

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[Benny]

A really depressing list to read! And how weird (or perhaps one should say sad!) that´s theres no common agreement on a definition of slavery.

/B

[Anthea]

Slavery is one of the main reason the UK needs to have stronger control on immigration

A) A lot of young African girls are bought into UK to act as unpaid servants, kept locked indoors, beaten and often sexually abused by the home-owner. Many unable to seek help even if they did manage to escape due to language problems.

Also, these girls would have been told that UK police will treat them even worse than their owner does. Because of the countries these girls come from a great many would be far too terrified of the police to say anything.

When these girls are discovered, often they themselves will support the owner's story of them being a well treated house guest or distant relation, such is the fear of UK police has over them.

B) UK has Mafia gangs that control East European and other girls who are forced into sex slavery and badly beaten.

The majority of these sex slaves will be given drugs to help control them. Many foreign nationals, including single TURKS use their services

C) Pakistani brides, often unwilling and sometimes sold to older men.

Bought to UK and used as servants to rest of family. No love just daily beatings.