Modern Slavery: Investigating A Slavery?

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Modern Slavery: Investigating a Monstrosity
Rubbing the vintage lamp that you bought on eBay will not give you a genie who in his thunderous voice would echo, ‘Master, your wish is my command!’ And thereby become your slave. But just because you are not a character from Arabian Nights or do not live in the era of trans-Atlantic slavery does not mean that you have missed the chance to own a slave. In fact living in twenty first century has made it much easier and affordable for you to own a slave.
The mention of the word slavery brings to the modern mind images of black people chained and brought to America in ships; the images associated to a kind of slavery that existed before 1865 mostly in South America. But the truth is that slavery is as ancient as human civilisation. It has existed in almost every culture and it exists till date.
This year’s Oscar Awards provided me the stimulus to write this paper, when Steve McQueen, director of the critically acclaimed movie 12 Years a Slave declared, ‘I am dedicating this award to all the people who have endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today.’ ‘Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,’ he said. ‘This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup.’
The aim of this term paper is to familiarise readers with the phenomena of ‘Modern Slavery’ and expose the heinous face of contemporary slavery.
What is Modern Slavery?
Modern day slavery according to Dr Kevin Bales has various meanings. There are definitions provided by international conventions and those that exist in people’s mind but the term ‘slave’ can be interpreted differently in different languages.
Dr Bales suggests that slavery has been ‘packaged’ differently at different points...

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...tors that are made with Coltan. 64% of Coltan reserves are located in Congo where child labourers work for endless tiring hours. The chocolates and coffee that you enjoy are brought to your table by estimated 200,000 child slaves working in Ivory Coast alone, harvesting 40% of the world's cocoa beans.
Justin Dillon, one time musician and abolitionist who on the behest of U.S state developed Slavery footprints in 2011 works. His headquarters situated in oklahoma to eradicate slavery from some of the brands that we love. Akin to Dillon there are various abolitionists and human right activist who try and eradicate slavery.
But the very existence of modern-day slavery is an anti-thesis to the codes of humanity. It is a black spot on the face of our existence which has with the passage of time only expanded and consumed in its dark shadow millions of innocent lives.

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