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Posts Tagged ‘slavery’
Videos & Documentaries, Oct 24th, 2011,
Last night on CNN I watched a series of programs on human trafficking, a subject I’ve studied and posted about before. Simply put, human trafficking is slavery. Most slaves are children and women who are poor and vulnerable, but the victims of human trafficking can be anyone, regardless of class, location, age, gender or ethnicity. The illegal trade of human beings is a widespread, multibillion-dollar industry that most people know nothing or next to nothing about. Yet there are now more slaves than at any time in the history of the world. Human trafficking has insidiously inserted itself into the…
Tags: children, human trafficking, not my life, prostitution, slavery, women
Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 9th, 2011,
This raises the spectre of de facto state sanctioning of slavery in 21st century Europe. –Anti-Slavery International’s director, Aidan McQuade Illegal aliens, mostly from Africa, work in slave-like conditions in industrial greenhouses on the Spanish Costa del Sol. The Spanish authorities and agricultural industry have been found to be working in cooperation to exploit desperate immigrant workers. According to a special investigative report by the Guardian, workers live in appalling conditions with inadequate housing, no sanitation and so little food they often depend on parcels from the Red Cross. Their employers also strictly control the workers’ movements and behavior. The…
Tags: African, costa del sol, greenhouse, illegal, slavery, slaves, Spain, veg, workers
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 20th, 2010,
Multinational chocolate giant Mars, working with the US Department of Agriculture and IBM, have sequenced the genome of the cocoa tree. Rather than patenting the genome, it’s been released into the public domain. Unlocking the genetic secrets of chocolate, scientists say, could revolutionize cocoa farming in the developing world, especially in West African nations. Cocoa production is severely hampered by pests and fungal diseases, which regularly cause hundreds of millions of euros in losses in West African chocolate producing nations like Ghana and the Ivory Coast as well as Brazil, the world’s second largest producer. From an article in the…
Tags: Africa, African, cacao, chocolate, code, farmers, genetic, genome, Ghana, Mars, scientists, slavery, West
Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 20th, 2010,
About six years ago I took a summer course on migration at Lund University in Sweden. The classes were taught by a University of California professor and focused on the contemporary issues of global human smuggling and human trafficking. A brief distinction between the two: Human smuggling is a ‘victimless’ crime in which a migrant pays a smuggler to assist in the illegal passage across a political border. Human trafficking, on the other hand, is far more sinister. Human trafficking involves human victims who are coerced, tricked and/or forced by criminals to work in exploitative relationships in which the traffickers…
Tags: call, child, global, human trafficking, industry, labor, Lilja 4-ever, migration, response, sex, slavery, slaves, smuggling, trafficking, victim
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 11th, 2009,
The fourth estate on the eminent Emirate “We are doing slavery,” said one worker. “We feel we are in jail, it’s like a prison sentence. This is how I feel. I am helpless. What can I do?” –from VBS.tv’s ‘The Slaves of Dubai’ Glamorous, glitzy and relatively tolerant among the typically conservative Arab nations, Dubai is known as a rich man’s playground of towering skyscrapers, sumptuous hotels and artificial oases. But what lies beyond the opulent shopping malls filled with expensive boutiques and the famous man-made islands in palm tree formation? What’s that floating in the crystal clear waters of…
Tags: Ben Anderson, Dubai, Johann Hari, Panorama, slavery, VBS
