Slavery (SES 10)

Slave being freed by British Royal Navy. photographed by Seaman Joseph Chidwick, on board HMS Sphinx off the East African coast in about 1907.

* Remembering slavery (Smithsonian. USA)

“As unimaginable as it seems, slavery and bondage still persist in the early 21st century. Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves. Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.” Source: US State Department

* Human trafficking and modern day slavery (website created by Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts)

* Anti-slavery international (antislavery.org)
* Human trafficking (worldrevolution.org)

The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to join forces and coordinate the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of foremost international agreement reached at the United Nations. To date over 110 countries have signed the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children... Source: ungift.org

Trafficking in persons — the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings for the purpose of exploiting their labor — is a slavery-like practice that must be eliminated. The trafficking of women and children into bonded sweatshop labor, forced marriage, forced prostitution, domestic servitude, and other kinds of work is a global phenomenon. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and use of physical force, and/or debt bondage to control their victims. Women are typically recruited with promises of good jobs in other countries or provinces, and, lacking better options at home, agree to migrate. Source: Human rights watch

* William Wilberforce (theologian.org.uk)