Have found this infographic useful for my research on the topic of modern human trafficking. I didn't realize until now how far has this despicable act of exploiting people gone. Hope you find it informative as I did.
There is another whole population of slaves this graphic fails to mention.
In the USA about 1 million people are imprisoned. Laws in the USA require the captives to work. Maximum wage is under $1/hour. Most of these prisoners make much less, about $1/day.
There are over 1 million slaves being used for forced labor in the United States of America, the land of the free, by government agencies.
This is true slavery. Regardless of why the slaves were captured, the fact that they are forced to work for very little reward, and suffer dire abuses and punishments if they refuse, is the definition of slavery.
In September of 2016 there was a nationwide strike by government slaves. The wholly owned media probably never mentioned it to you. Many people were severely punished for participating in the strike, because organizing any kind of group at all is considered a high security threat, and chargable as a crime.
Even those who were not charged with new crimes suffered torture, such as confinement to solitary, reduction of rations to 'nutraloaf' a tasteless cake of some kind supposedly sufficient to keep you alive, 1 cake per day, and various other abuses, such as being strapped into a restraint chair 24 hours a day, rectal feeding, restrictions on visits from loved ones, phone calls, fines, and on and on.
If you have never been kept in a cage and had your every movement and bodily function watched under threat, you can hardly imagine the severity and subtlety the keepers can inflict without supervision, due process, or access to counsel.
Do not forget government slaves. In some ways, these people, up to 25% of which are innocent of the charges against them, but who were coerced into accepting a plea bargain, are victimized worse than other slaves. They are kept in cages, fed swill, and psychologically abused in addition to other damage they suffer.
I don't know how many captives are kept in other countries and forced to work, but one slave in the world is too many. 1 million in the land of the free is an abomination.
Are those people coming from Third world countries? What is their position in Kuwait? I've watched a few documentaries on human trafficking in the Gulf states. It's mostly women from India, Philippines, Malaysia et cetera who apparently work as maids but it is a cover up for slaves in literal sense, doing every job that it is asked from them to do.
So many of them start by getting contractor jobs with US Companies.. KBR to name one.. and they get paid SHITTY wages and have horrible living conditions. I was a contractor in Afghanistan making 6 figures and had a whole tent with only 3 roommates we got a good size of space so we werent cramped.. Those people got paid Mcdonalds worker wages and less (sending that money back home to support their families) and live like 10 - 15 people in a SMALL ASS TENT. basically on top of each other... then when there time is up. They have to leave country and most go to Kuwait to wait for another job.. they get there... and get stuck because they take their passports.. Kuwaitis have money.. so they open a restaurant , a hotel, etc.. and Get these people to work for them paying them just enough to survive but never enough to get home... They Drive them to and from work.. they live in crappy apartments... and we as Americans.. know about it.. but not much we can do.. Not our country
Thank you for this informative response. Indeed the Gulf states are Western most reliable allies in the Middle East, yet none of the Western countries representatives have ever spoken openly about this horrific crime. Mostly it's the journalists who are covering this topic but it's simply not enough to put pressure on the institutions of these "exotic" countries to start combating this problem. It looks like money and oil prevails over basic human rights.
I won't say that it is the problem of the USA or any Western country, but simply said, it is a hypocrisy to make sale contracts, democracy and economy boosting projects in this part of the world, when you know from all these facts that the waitress in the meeting board room might be - a slave. In the 21th century...
Thanks for the research, I'd gotten into something of an argument with @kyriacos about the certifiable fact modern "wage slavery" doesn't entail anything like the violence and abuse of real slavery, and you've collated a lot of data that supports my opinion completely, while pointing out some oversights and misquantifications I'd made.
There is another whole population of slaves this graphic fails to mention.
In the USA about 1 million people are imprisoned. Laws in the USA require the captives to work. Maximum wage is under $1/hour. Most of these prisoners make much less, about $1/day.
There are over 1 million slaves being used for forced labor in the United States of America, the land of the free, by government agencies.
This is true slavery. Regardless of why the slaves were captured, the fact that they are forced to work for very little reward, and suffer dire abuses and punishments if they refuse, is the definition of slavery.
In September of 2016 there was a nationwide strike by government slaves. The wholly owned media probably never mentioned it to you. Many people were severely punished for participating in the strike, because organizing any kind of group at all is considered a high security threat, and chargable as a crime.
Even those who were not charged with new crimes suffered torture, such as confinement to solitary, reduction of rations to 'nutraloaf' a tasteless cake of some kind supposedly sufficient to keep you alive, 1 cake per day, and various other abuses, such as being strapped into a restraint chair 24 hours a day, rectal feeding, restrictions on visits from loved ones, phone calls, fines, and on and on.
If you have never been kept in a cage and had your every movement and bodily function watched under threat, you can hardly imagine the severity and subtlety the keepers can inflict without supervision, due process, or access to counsel.
Do not forget government slaves. In some ways, these people, up to 25% of which are innocent of the charges against them, but who were coerced into accepting a plea bargain, are victimized worse than other slaves. They are kept in cages, fed swill, and psychologically abused in addition to other damage they suffer.
I don't know how many captives are kept in other countries and forced to work, but one slave in the world is too many. 1 million in the land of the free is an abomination.
I lived in Kuwait for a short time.. The amount of Human Trafficking there is CRAZY...
Are those people coming from Third world countries? What is their position in Kuwait? I've watched a few documentaries on human trafficking in the Gulf states. It's mostly women from India, Philippines, Malaysia et cetera who apparently work as maids but it is a cover up for slaves in literal sense, doing every job that it is asked from them to do.
So many of them start by getting contractor jobs with US Companies.. KBR to name one.. and they get paid SHITTY wages and have horrible living conditions. I was a contractor in Afghanistan making 6 figures and had a whole tent with only 3 roommates we got a good size of space so we werent cramped.. Those people got paid Mcdonalds worker wages and less (sending that money back home to support their families) and live like 10 - 15 people in a SMALL ASS TENT. basically on top of each other... then when there time is up. They have to leave country and most go to Kuwait to wait for another job.. they get there... and get stuck because they take their passports.. Kuwaitis have money.. so they open a restaurant , a hotel, etc.. and Get these people to work for them paying them just enough to survive but never enough to get home... They Drive them to and from work.. they live in crappy apartments... and we as Americans.. know about it.. but not much we can do.. Not our country
Thank you for this informative response. Indeed the Gulf states are Western most reliable allies in the Middle East, yet none of the Western countries representatives have ever spoken openly about this horrific crime. Mostly it's the journalists who are covering this topic but it's simply not enough to put pressure on the institutions of these "exotic" countries to start combating this problem. It looks like money and oil prevails over basic human rights.
I won't say that it is the problem of the USA or any Western country, but simply said, it is a hypocrisy to make sale contracts, democracy and economy boosting projects in this part of the world, when you know from all these facts that the waitress in the meeting board room might be - a slave. In the 21th century...
It's horrible! How they could do such horrible thing?
great post
Thanks for the research, I'd gotten into something of an argument with @kyriacos about the certifiable fact modern "wage slavery" doesn't entail anything like the violence and abuse of real slavery, and you've collated a lot of data that supports my opinion completely, while pointing out some oversights and misquantifications I'd made.
Nice animation, but is there any evidence to support it?