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What is modern slavery? Is it really true that in the 21st century we are still talking about human trafficking, their lack of rights and freedom to dispose of their lives and work? Unfortunately, this also happens. Also, forced labor, involuntary arranged marriages, typical for many countries, debt and credit bondage, and other relations that contradict the principles of equality of people and their rights to their own dignity and freedom, are also included in the calculation of the slavery index.
According to research, about 10 world countries are “suppliers” to 60% of slaves worldwide. This list includes India, China, Russia, Nigeria, Philippines, Congo and others.
More than 40 million people are believed to live under modern slavery. For example, in India, where there is a huge population (1,3 billion), there are 8 million modern slaves – several large cities of involuntary people! And in North Korea, it is estimated that one in ten can work forcibly.
Just a few weeks ago, the US government showed annual data on human trafficking in 187 countries. Russia and Ukraine do not value the work of their citizens, so they were shifted by several dozen places in the ranking. But North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran and many other countries with a low percentage of per capita income and difficult conditions for women continue to “lead” in the list of slave owners.
Consider the TOP-10 countries in which personal freedom, human rights and labor are devalued literally to the level of the slave system.
10 Iran
There are about 16 slaves per XNUMX people. Technological development, a favorable geographical position in Eurasia, huge reserves of expensive natural gas and oil give the country the opportunity to grow rich and increase economic stability, organize more and more new jobs. And yet, against the background of industrialization and oil production, hard and low-paid wage labor flourishes. The latter are forced to work in unfavorable conditions for the extraction of non-ferrous and ferrous metals, oil, gas and coal, risk their lives in mines, and breathe fumes at oil refineries and petrochemical plants. At the same time, salaries are hardly enough to pay for housing and food for the family.
9. Cambodia
Here the number of slaves per thousand population tends to 17. Basically, the country’s economy is based on the textile industry and tourism. The country received a guaranteed quota for the supply of clothing from the States, so workers massively destroy health and eyesight in clothing and accessories factories, for which they receive unsatisfactory wages. About 350 thousand people are involved in the production and sale of clothing.
8. Pakistan
In this country, the slavery rate is similar to Cambodia. A large state in South Asia is industrial and agricultural, due to which there is a multi-level and developed economy. Agriculture plays a huge role, providing about 21% of the total GNP produced by the country. But motivational support for farmers and farmers is not enough – people work hard for low wages, which do not allow them to provide decent rest and living conditions.
7. Southern Sudan
For every thousand – 20 modern slaves. A large African state is focused on the extraction and sale of oil. However, the pipelines are mainly controlled by Northern Sudan, providing an export product. A massive “cut” of the budget and income from the sale of “liquid gold” occurs at the tops of these countries, while the labor of an ordinary person is exploited and paid unworthily.
6. Mauritania
There are about 21 people per thousand people who work in unsatisfactory conditions and are infringed on their civil rights. A small country in western Africa is washed by the Atlantic Ocean, which, if properly managed, could make it possible to make money on tourism, when every person is interested in fruitful work and providing quality services to visitors. But Mauritania is one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world, and its state does not prosecute slave owners at the legislative level. Officially, slavery was abolished back in the 80s, and additionally in 2007, but this does not prevent about 20% of the Berbers from keeping slaves, mostly consisting of blacks. The latter do not have political, economic and even personal freedoms and rights; children born still automatically become the property of their masters.
5. Afghanistan
The number of slaves tends to 22 per thousand population. A large state in the center of Asia is very poor, has no access to the sea and opportunities to earn money from tourism. Basically, the country depends on subsidies from foreign unions and investments, and is ready to sell its people into economic and debt bondage.
4. The Central African Republic
The coefficient of modern slavery is close to Afghanistan. The state in the center of Africa also has no access to the sea or ocean. The specific hot climate does not make it possible to normally engage in agriculture and cattle breeding, develop the economy, and extract useful resources. Maybe that’s why it is one of the most uninhabited areas of Africa, as well as one of the poorest. People simply have no choice – in order not to die of hunger themselves and not to kill their children, they are ready to work for a penny, while women and men, as well as children, are equally involved in slave labor. At the same time, the country has the prerequisites for prosperity, but deposits of diamonds, gold, oil, uranium, etc. are being developed by foreign prospectors, taking cash flow from the country.
3. Burundi
There are about 1000 slaves per 40 people in the country. It is a small area in eastern Africa, and is also one of the world’s underdeveloped countries with a high level of poverty (more than 50% of people live below its line). In order to survive in difficult economic, social and climatic conditions, people are engaged in menial labor, mainly cultivating 50% of the territory (arable land) and raising livestock (36%). The rest of the Burundi zone is of little use for economic and agricultural activities.
2. Eritrea
One of the highest rates of slavery according to the American rating – up to 93 people per 1000 population. In this country, various forms of economic and social slavery are noted: child and forced labor, trafficking in people and their organs, forced marriage, involuntary work of prisoners. A small state in eastern Africa has access to the Red Sea, which could allow the development of tourism in the country. The American Human Rights Agency calls the Eritrean government and laws one of the worst and inhumane in relation to the population. The country’s government, in turn, speaks of the politicization of such conclusions.
1. North Korea
Here we have reached the leader of the foreign rating. In the north of Korea, more than 104 people per thousand of the population are in involuntary labor. The country in the east of Asia has a mixed economy in which the state intervenes directly, making working conditions unfavorable and unprofitable for the population. The country is isolated from various unions and the world as a whole, does not issue any ratings or statistics that would allow assessing the standard of living of the population, satisfaction with their social and political position.
This is how tyrannical states remain in the modern world, which exploit human labor to replenish the budget and enrich those in power. Hostages of financial bondage, many people are accustomed to hard labor from childhood, and the worst thing is that they consider this situation normal and mundane.