Modern Slavery

By Monish Prasanth .S

Human trafficking

•Trade of humans

•2nd most profitable industry

•Fastest growing criminal enterprise

•Humans are sold and pushed into slavery

Human trafficking involves

Lobour trafficking

What is Modern slavery???

Men Women

Children

Someone is in slavery if they are: •Forced to work

•Owned or controlled by an 'employer‘

•Dehumanised

•Bought and sold as 'property‘

•Physically constrained (or)•Restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement

WHAT TYPES OF SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?

•BONDED LABOUR

•CHILD SLAVERY

•EARLY & FORCED MARRIAGE

•FORCED LABOUR

•DECENT-BASED SLAVERY

• Population• Industrialization• Corruption• Lack of awareness• Poverty• Culture• market• Lack of freedom

-Education-Political-Economic

Causes for modern slavery

-Nearly half of the modern slaves belong to India

-14 million people living in conditions of slaveryIt involves,

additionally

+ domestic servitude+ child beggars+ Ritual sex slavery+ Bride trafficking+ Harvesting Organs

Modern Slavery in India

Economic conditions are decisive in the formation of slavery…

Slaves were seen as property…

Nearly forty million Africans lost their lives due to horrific conditions on slaving vessels (Anti-Slavery International 2005).

Economic factors have been shown to precipitate the rise and fall of different forms of slavery.

Slaves today are, in purely economic terms, short term, low-capital investments with incredibly high rates of return

Economic impacts

• The primary method of enslavement in countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh is debt bondage..

• This also involves

Contract slavery ..

• Mass exploitation

of children..

• Half of the world’s six and a half billion people survive on less than two dollars per day.

• Public awareness• Driving Home & on streets the

Message • Money needs to be spent to

eradicate slavery• Steps by govt.• Businesses• In Support of the Service Providers

Ways You Can Help Fight Modern Slavery

Modern-day slavery:

A problem that can’t be ignored…

Let us all work together

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