Top 10 Facts about Modern Slavery:
- Slavery: Forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away.
- 27 million slaves in the world today
- Slavery is not legal anywhere but happens everywhere.
- The majority of slaves can be found in India and in African countries.
- At least 14,500 slaves are trafficked into the US each year.
- Slaves work in fields, brothels, homes, mines, restaurants, — anywhere slave owners can feed their greed.
- Human trafficking is the modern-day slave trade.
- $90 is the average cost of a human slave around the world.
- Slave owners use many terms to avoid the word slavery: debt bondage, bonded labor, attached labor, restavec, forced labor, indentured servitude, and human trafficking.
- It is possible to end slavery in 25 years. Everyone has a role to play – government, business, international organizations, consumers, YOU.
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