Mais de 200 MILHÕES de pessoas HOJE são escravas
de trabalho ou sexuais
Existem mais
escravos HOJE do que em qualquer outra época na história!
MILTON MACIEL
WHAT IS MODERN
SLAVERY?
Millions of men, women
and children around the world are forced to lead lives as slaves. Although this
exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People
are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the mercy
of their 'employers'.
Slavery exists today
despite the fact that it is banned in most of the countries where it is
practised. It is also prohibited by the 1948Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the 1956 UN Supplementary Convention on the
Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to
Slavery. Women from eastern Europe are bonded into prostitution, children
are trafficked between West African countries and men are forced to work as
slaves on BRAZILIAN agricultural
estates. Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all
ages, sex and race.
Common characteristics
distinguish slavery from other human rights violations. A slave is:
- forced to work -- through mental or physical
threat;
- owned or controlled by an 'employer',
usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse;
- dehumanized, treated as a commodity or
bought and sold as 'property';
- physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
WHAT TYPES OF
SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?
Bonded labor affects millions of people around the world.
People become bonded laborers by taking or being tricked into taking a loan for
as little as the cost of medicine for a sick child. To repay the debt, many are
forced to work long hours, seven days a week, up to 365 days a year. They
receive basic food and shelter as 'payment' for their work, but may never pay
off the loan, which can be passed down for generations.
Early and forced
marriage affects women and
girls who are married without choice and are forced into lives of servitude
often accompanied by physical violence.
Forced labor affects people who are illegally
recruited by individuals, governments or political parties and forced to work
-- usually under threat of violence or other penalties.
Slavery by descent is where people are either born into a slave
class or are from a 'group' that society views as suited to being used as slave
labour.
Trafficking involves the transport and/or trade of
people -- women, children and men -- from one area to another for the purpose
of forcing them into slavery conditions.
Worst forms of
child labor affects an
estimated 126 million children around the world in work that is harmful to
their health and welfare.
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