Lurker64
03-16-2011, 10:10 PM
-Even though slavery was banned worldwide in by the 1927 Slavery convention, conservative estimates have over 27 million people worldwide are enslaved in the world today.
-Traditional chattel slavery (where a human being is treated directly as property) is rarely legal, though not gone. The current Sudanese regime uses a form of race-based slavery in which militia forces raid civilian villages for slaves. In Mauritania, slave raids by Arab-Berbers have been going on for the past eight hundred years.
Other forms of slavery are more common however:
--Debt bondage is a form of slavery wherein a human being is held as collateral for a loan. In countries with extreme poverty, families often have nothing else to offer to secure a loan other than a family member. Due to high interest rates, this form of slavery sometimes even becomes inherited, where human bondage spans generations. 15 to 20 million slaves are in debt bondage in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
--A form of slavery that still exists in the United States today is "forced labor" wherein a person is lured by the promise of a good job but instead finds themselves enslaved. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to this practice. The CIA estimates that 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the US each year as domestics, agricultural, garment, and sex slaves.
--Sex slavery is common in South Asia to this day. In most cases, young girls are forced into prostitution by male relatives in order to raise money for whatever ends. Though this is also a form of forced labor, where people lured by promising jobs are beaten and forced to work in brothels under threats of violence and death.
-Slavery is estimated to generate a yearly profit of roughly $1.5 billion dollars for the slaveholders. Goods manufactured by slaves that you may find in stores include sugar from the Dominican Republic, chocolate from the Ivory Coast, paper clips from China, carpets from Nepal, and cigarettes from India.
-Slavery is present in every Continent (except Antarctica). Examples include:
ALBANIA: Teenage girls are tricked into sex slavery and trafficked by organized crime rings
BRAZIL: Lured into the rainforest, families burn trees into charcoal at gunpoint
BURMA: The ruling military junta enslaves its own people to build infrastructure projects, some
benefiting US corporations.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Haitians are rounded up at random, taken across the border, and forced to cut cane in sugar plantations
GHANA: Families repent for sins by giving daughters as slaves to fetish priests
INDIA: Children trapped in debt bondage roll beedi cigarettes 14 hours a day
IVORY COAST: Child slaves forced to work on cocoa plantations
MAURITANIA: Arab-Berbers buy and sell black Africans as inheritable property
PAKISTAN: Children with nimble fingers are forced to weave carpets in looms
SUDAN: Arab militias from the North take Southern Sudanese women and children in slave raids.
THAILAND: Women and children become sex slaves for tourists
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Bangladeshi boys are transported and exploited as jockeys for camel racing
--In India and Nepal, a slave can be bought for as little as $36, average costs are around $90. During the height of slavery in the United States, the (non-adjusted) price of a slave was roughly $1,500 per head. Despite being significantly more illegal, slavery has actually become *cheaper*.
With all this in mind, I would like to propose a common decency fine wherein any athlete involved in a contract or labor dispute who compares his or her situation to "modern slavery" be fined 10% of their paycheck which will be donated to human rights groups who will use this money to combat *actual* modern day slavery.
-Traditional chattel slavery (where a human being is treated directly as property) is rarely legal, though not gone. The current Sudanese regime uses a form of race-based slavery in which militia forces raid civilian villages for slaves. In Mauritania, slave raids by Arab-Berbers have been going on for the past eight hundred years.
Other forms of slavery are more common however:
--Debt bondage is a form of slavery wherein a human being is held as collateral for a loan. In countries with extreme poverty, families often have nothing else to offer to secure a loan other than a family member. Due to high interest rates, this form of slavery sometimes even becomes inherited, where human bondage spans generations. 15 to 20 million slaves are in debt bondage in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
--A form of slavery that still exists in the United States today is "forced labor" wherein a person is lured by the promise of a good job but instead finds themselves enslaved. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to this practice. The CIA estimates that 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the US each year as domestics, agricultural, garment, and sex slaves.
--Sex slavery is common in South Asia to this day. In most cases, young girls are forced into prostitution by male relatives in order to raise money for whatever ends. Though this is also a form of forced labor, where people lured by promising jobs are beaten and forced to work in brothels under threats of violence and death.
-Slavery is estimated to generate a yearly profit of roughly $1.5 billion dollars for the slaveholders. Goods manufactured by slaves that you may find in stores include sugar from the Dominican Republic, chocolate from the Ivory Coast, paper clips from China, carpets from Nepal, and cigarettes from India.
-Slavery is present in every Continent (except Antarctica). Examples include:
ALBANIA: Teenage girls are tricked into sex slavery and trafficked by organized crime rings
BRAZIL: Lured into the rainforest, families burn trees into charcoal at gunpoint
BURMA: The ruling military junta enslaves its own people to build infrastructure projects, some
benefiting US corporations.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Haitians are rounded up at random, taken across the border, and forced to cut cane in sugar plantations
GHANA: Families repent for sins by giving daughters as slaves to fetish priests
INDIA: Children trapped in debt bondage roll beedi cigarettes 14 hours a day
IVORY COAST: Child slaves forced to work on cocoa plantations
MAURITANIA: Arab-Berbers buy and sell black Africans as inheritable property
PAKISTAN: Children with nimble fingers are forced to weave carpets in looms
SUDAN: Arab militias from the North take Southern Sudanese women and children in slave raids.
THAILAND: Women and children become sex slaves for tourists
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Bangladeshi boys are transported and exploited as jockeys for camel racing
--In India and Nepal, a slave can be bought for as little as $36, average costs are around $90. During the height of slavery in the United States, the (non-adjusted) price of a slave was roughly $1,500 per head. Despite being significantly more illegal, slavery has actually become *cheaper*.
With all this in mind, I would like to propose a common decency fine wherein any athlete involved in a contract or labor dispute who compares his or her situation to "modern slavery" be fined 10% of their paycheck which will be donated to human rights groups who will use this money to combat *actual* modern day slavery.