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jjjunebugg discovered 6 months ago- . Because of the concern of My Friend, ScotchBonnet, this information was made available to our Stumbleupon Family.....Thank you, ScotchBonnet, for caring.....jjjunebugg:) "Trains and boats and planes are passing by, They mean a trip to Paris or Rome To someone else but not for me Those trains and those boats and planes Took you away, away from me..." This song of yesteryear, made popular by Dionne Warwick, conjures up thoughts of what it must have felt like for the families of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves over 200 years ago. But 200 years and many generations later, boats and planes are still trafficking human cargo to diverse places around the world, as modern-day slavery continues to thrive. Slavery remains big business as stories from around the world tell of its horrors. It respects no one because its roots are embedded deeply in money and power. Men, women and children are all subjected to its wiles. Despite the United Nations Children Fund's child-protection programmes which "aim to prevent and respond to violence, exploitation and abuse against children", it is estimated that up to a million and half children are being trafficked on an annual basis. This kind of slavery takes away the rights of children and leads them into hotbeds of criminal activity. Child labour has existed for eons, and some estimates say well over 200 million children worldwide, between the ages of five and 17 are engaged in this form of enslavement. Children are working in mines, operating dangerous machinery, and labouring in agriculture. Reports from the U.N. office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons state that over 300,000 children worldwide are suspected of being involved in military service. Some said to be as young as nine years old are on the front line or are carrying out other roles. This does not rule out young girls who are sex slaves, or sometimes referred to as 'soldiers' wives'. In the business of trafficking, the demand for children is high because they come from very poor backgrounds and their families are made to believe that they are being given the chance of a better life. Most times, the abuse takes place in their home countries, but they may be sent to other countries, where they end up as illegal citizens with little or no right to proper justice. Modern-day slavery seems to target mostly members of the female gender. Women and girls, taken against their will as sex slaves, are of every colour under the sun, and hail from every corner of the Earth. Reports several weeks ago of two British teenage girls caught at Accra airport in Ghana, carrying cannabis (ganja) with a street value running into tens of thousands of pounds sterling, has brought into sharp focus the link that Britain still has with Ghana, one of the countries that was featured so strongly during the years of the middle passage. Instead of boats, planes are today's modern mode of transport, as 21st century slave masters have little or no time to hang around. Like the people they enslave, they, too, come in every colour under the sun. Young girls brought into the United Kingdom from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America on a regular basis, sometimes escape and relate stories of threats and torture. Lured to the U.K. with the promise of a better way of life, passports and travel documents are taken away and the girls end up in brothels, forced to have sex with dozens of men who pay brothel owners and traffickers, but not the girls. Hence, the difference between prostitutes and sex slaves. FOR THE REST OF THE STORY....PLEASE GO TO THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS ARTICLE... .
- annelock rated 3 weeks ago
- Sad story. How do you think we can buy toys or other goods so cheaply? Living wages are something companies such as [Walmar...] have no interest in paying. So cheap labour, slave labour is the way to go. DO NOT buy from companies which use children to manafacture their products. DO NOT shop in [Wal...] or other stores which buy from child labour companies.
