Through Free the Slaves’ research, first published in Kevin Bales’Disposable People, our conservative estimate is that there are 21-30 million people in slavery today. This means that there are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history. Slavery has existed for thousands of years, but changes in the world’s economy and societies over the past 50 years have enabled a resurgence of slavery.
(Source: https://www.freetheslaves.net)
There are many different characteristics that distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:
- forced to work - through mental or physical threat;
- owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;
- dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';
- physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
WHAT FORMS OF SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?
- Bonded labour
- Child slavery
- Early and forced marriage
- Forced labour
- Descent-based slavery
- Trafficking
(Source: http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/what_is_modern_slavery.aspx)
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