Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to scholar Kevin Bales, author of Disposable People (2004), estimates that as many as 27 million people are in "modern-day slavery" across the globe. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2008, the U.S. Department of State estimates that 2 million children are exploited by the global commercial sex trade. [ 10 ]
Exploitation is a concept defined as, in its broadest sense, one agent taking unfair advantage of another agent. [1] When applying this to labour (or labor), it denotes an unjust social relationship based on an asymmetry of power or unequal exchange of value between workers and their employers. [2]
Sex trafficked people face similar health consequences to women exploited for labor purposes, people who have experienced domestic violence, and migrant women. [87] Many of the sex workers contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs). [ 15 ]
Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes young people sexually. Bed blocker: [7] A derogatory term used to describe older people taking up hospital beds in a healthcare system.
Ronald Richards, an attorney for Francis' now ex Wilson, said, "999 of 1,000 people would not flee the country to just avoid serving a misdemeanor sentence for assault at the county jail.
The studies also showed that legalizing sex work led to an increase in sex trafficking, which is another reason people give for making sex work illegal. [42] An argument against legalizing sex work is to keep children from being involved in this industry. Children who have been exploited suffer long-term negative consequences. [43]
Some 24.9 million people are in forced labor, of whom 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture, [8] 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million people in forced labour imposed by state authorities. [8] An additional 15.4 million people are in forced marriages.
The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has dementia and late onset Alzheimer's disease, his legal team has said in a court document filed in New York. Lawyers for Mike Jeffries have requested ...