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Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...
The "Wise Humanitarian Wall" displays the names of many prominent figures in the ongoing fight against slavery. The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, located in Kingston upon Hull, England, was officially opened in 2006, to act as a research centre for academics in conjunction with the University of Hull.
Slavery in the Sahel region (and to a lesser extent the Horn of Africa) exists along the racial and cultural boundary of Arabized Berbers in the north and darker Africans in the south. [8] Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. [9]
Unseen is a UK-based anti-slavery charity, founded in 2008, working towards a world without slavery. Unseen provides safehouses and support in the community for survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery. The charity also runs the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and works with individuals, communities, business, governments ...
Slavery Footprint, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, that works to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery [23] Stop Child Trafficking Now, an organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker [24] Stop the Traffik, a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide
“The way that [workers] are treated is similar to what some might call modern-day slavery.” Tamimi, Abdulla’s employer, said it could not comment “on generalizations of former staff or on ...
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
[3] [4] Since then, the CIW has continued its anti-slavery efforts, [5] collaborating with law enforcement in more than a dozen domestic and transnational slavery prosecutions, helping to free thousands of workers from slavery operations in the Southeastern US, and training state and federal law enforcement officers in what has come to be known ...