Slavery Today
Slavery Today | World Leaders Must Combat Slavery Worldwide
Richard Re is a senior editor at the Harvard International Review, a quarterly journal of international relations.
Summary: Slavery today is an international problem. A decades-old civil war in Sudan has resulted in government-sanctioned kidnapping and enslavement of thousands of Sudanese. In addition, poor women and children from countries such as Thailand and Nigeria are lured into sex slavery by false offers of lucrative jobs in foreign countries. In order to combat the problem of slavery, world leaders must work to address its underlying...
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Table of Contents
- Trafficking in Humans Is a Global Issue
- Slavery in the United States Is a Serious Problem
- Slavery in Mauritania Is a Serious Problem
- Bonded Labor Enslaves the Poor
- Slavery Is Big Business
- World Leaders Must Combat Slavery Worldwide
- The United States Must Work to Abolish Slavery
- Sex Slavery Must Be Eradicated
- Slave Redemption Has a Role in Combating Slavery in Sudan
- Slave Redemption Increases Slavery in Sudan
- Reparations Should Be Paid to Descendants of African American Slaves
- Reparations Should Not Be Paid to Descendants of African American Slaves
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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