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  2. Africa is now the world’s epicenter of modern-day slavery - AOL

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    Africa just recorded the highest rate of modern-day enslavement in the world. Armed conflict, state-sponsored forced labor, and forced marriages were the main causes behind the estimated 9.2 ...

  3. Slavery in contemporary Africa - Wikipedia

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    The continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. [1] Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since before historical records, but intensifying with the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trade [2] [3] and again with the trans-Atlantic slave trade; [4] the demand for slaves created an entire series ...

  4. Slavery in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Global Slavery Index - Wikipedia

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    The Global Slavery Index is a global study of modern slavery published by the Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative. The index provides rankings across three dimensions: size of the problem (prevalence and absolute number), [ 1 ] government response, [ 2 ] and vulnerability (factors explaining prevalence).

  6. African leaders to push for slavery reparations despite ...

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    African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled ...

  7. Slavery tribunal? Africa, Caribbean unite on reparations - AOL

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    Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, with the United States ...

  8. Slavery in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Slavery has never been eradicated in Africa, and it commonly appears in African states, such as Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, and Sudan, in places where law and order have collapsed. [151] Although outlawed in all countries today, slavery is practised in secret in many parts of the world. [152]

  9. Where does slavery still exist in 2014? - AOL

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    With the massive increase in the global population, there are more people in slavery today, than at any other point in human history. Related: Statistics about slavery More on AOL: