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Slavery persists today with thousands of people still held in servitude; however, an active social movement called Temedt (which won the 2012 Anti-Slavery International [67] award) has been pressuring the government for ending slavery in the country. [68] [69]
Although outlawed in all countries today, slavery is practised in secret in many parts of the world. [151] There are an estimated 30 million victims of slavery worldwide. [152] In Mauritania alone, up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population, are enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.
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 2014 Global Slavery Index assigned countries for which no data were available the same rate as surveyed countries that were judged to be similar. For example, prevalence rates for Britain were applied to Ireland and Iceland, and those for America to western European nations, including Germany. This extrapolation attracted criticism. [9]
Even though slavery is now outlawed in every country, the number of slaves today is estimated as between 12 million and 29.8 million. [306] [307] [308] According to a broad definition of slavery, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world. [309]
Despite the official abolition of slavery, the 2018 Global Slavery Index estimated the number of slaves as 90,000 (or 2.1% of the population), [7] [8] a reduction from the 155,600 reported in the 2014 index in which Mauritania ranked 31st of 167 countries by total number of slaves and first by prevalence, with 4% of the population.
A 1729 map showing the Slave Coast The Slave Coast is still marked on this c. 1914 map by John Bartholomew & Co. of Edinburgh. Major slave trading areas of western Africa, 15th–19th centuries. The Slave Coast is a historical region along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, encompassing parts of modern-day Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
Modern slavery can occur due to the amount of debt some African countries have, including Nigeria. [29] One effort to fix this was by the Bush administration by cancelling the debts of 18 countries, including Nigeria. [30] The Jubilee movement also cancelled the debts of 50 or more countries, including Nigeria. [30]