Modern Day Enslavement

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MODERN DAY ENSLAVEMENT Slavery exists today despite that it is illegal in all the countries where it is practiced. It is also prohibited by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1956 UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Enslavement is a state or action of making someone a slave. It’s a system in which people were forced upon, treated as the property of others or the wiliness to obey someone else. (Webster Dictionary). Where the term slave has really been changed to enslave which by definition is taking possession and control of a person in such a ways that deprives a person of his or her individual liberty, with the intent of exploiting a person through their use, management, profit, transfer or disposal. This is usually achieved through means of violence or threats of violence, deception and/or coercion. People, who are enslaved, can be reduced to being enchained, shackled, controlled or dominated by others. Whereas slave or slaves are completely subservient to a dominating influence. There mental state of being is compliant and obedient to an authority and freedom was unthinkable. Slaves were the property of something to bought, sold, traded or even destroyed. There are almost 30 million individuals around the world living as slaves and which comprise of 160 countries around the world in modern day society, according to the Global Slavery Index. ( The countries with the highest numbers of enslaved people are India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Taken together, these countries account for 76% of the total estimate of 29.8 million in modern slavery. The country with the largest estimated number of people in modern slavery is India, which is estimated to have between
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