Speakeasy
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Sorry in advance for the serious topic. It just fell out and I couldn't stop it...
S
What is a slave? Not the fantasy sort that we indulge ouselves in where someone freely relinquishes their power.
A real slave is someone who is forced to work for little or no pay under the threat of violence. If that is the definition, the there are an estimated six million slaves in the world today. Six million human beings with no say in their lives at all, who are regularly beaten or starved or discarded to die in the desert or jungle or city streets or outright killed for “substandard” work or even insolence. If they are too sick to work; if they are too old (sometimes 16 years) to perform the labor for which they were enslaved, they are beaten, raped, starved, tortured and mutilated. These people are in almost every country of the world, including the United States. The State Department estimates that more than a million people are trafficked throughout the world every year, with most being forced into the sex trade.
You and I have a better life that almost anyone in the history of the world, including past royalty. Yet there are people cutting down trees in Brazil, making clothing in china and carpets in Pakistan, providing sex for pay in Australia, the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, the Balkans (even to our peacekeeping troops!) and especially Thailand. Most were duped into believing they would have jobs away from their homes, or were kidnapped and sold into slavery by people who purported to be their friends, or even their own families. Others have been slaves to the same family for generations. More than one million CHILDREN enter the sex trade annually. As a sad footnote, the average rate for HIV infected children rescued from brothels is 50 percent, and some rates are as high as 90 percent.
In 1994 ECPAT provided the below noted estimates on the number of children involved in the sex industry.
500,000 children in Brazil (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 37.)
400,000 children in India (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 21.)
200,000-850,000 children in Thailand (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 29.)
100,000 children in Taiwan (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 28.)
200,000 children in Nepal (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 24.)
UNICEF estimates that there are 100,000-300,000 children involved in the sex trade in North America. (Source: ECPAT, Europe and North America Regional Profile, issued by the World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996, p. 70.)
According to the Political Economy Center Chulalungkborn University of Thailand, in 1993-1995 the world-sex industry generated an estimated $20-23 billion income. (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 29.) *
It is beyond strange to think that this type of exploitation exists in the 21st century, but it does. It is here. It is now. If we are to believe that we are our brothers’ keepers, then we, who have more privileges and comforts than almost anyone in history, have an obligation to do SOMETHING to help. Go to these sites. Give them money, time or expertise. Please help.
http://www.iabolish.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/news/626509.asp?0sp=v3b2&cp1=1
http://www.lfpress.com/sudan/
http://www.antislavery.org/
http://www.escapinghades.com/Youngest_Victims.html
http://www.casa-alianza.org/EN/index-en.shtml
http://www.catw-ap.org/
http://www.stop-traffic.org/
http://www.captivedaughters.org/
http://www.missingkids.com/html/ncmec_default_ec_tourism.html
http://www.equalitynow.org/action_eng_12_1.html
http://www.feminista.com/v1n7/hughes.html
http://www.feminista.com/v1n7/hughes.html
http://www.rb.se/ecpat/exploit.htm
http://www.iabolish.com/today/background/australia.htm#
http://www.freeburmacoalition.org
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/sex_tourism.html
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/downtown/2020/downtown_010716_indiasexslaves_feature.html
This is particularly poignant – Slavemaster to Abolitionist:
http://www.iabolish.com/act/abol/profile/yessa1.htm
S
What is a slave? Not the fantasy sort that we indulge ouselves in where someone freely relinquishes their power.
A real slave is someone who is forced to work for little or no pay under the threat of violence. If that is the definition, the there are an estimated six million slaves in the world today. Six million human beings with no say in their lives at all, who are regularly beaten or starved or discarded to die in the desert or jungle or city streets or outright killed for “substandard” work or even insolence. If they are too sick to work; if they are too old (sometimes 16 years) to perform the labor for which they were enslaved, they are beaten, raped, starved, tortured and mutilated. These people are in almost every country of the world, including the United States. The State Department estimates that more than a million people are trafficked throughout the world every year, with most being forced into the sex trade.
You and I have a better life that almost anyone in the history of the world, including past royalty. Yet there are people cutting down trees in Brazil, making clothing in china and carpets in Pakistan, providing sex for pay in Australia, the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, the Balkans (even to our peacekeeping troops!) and especially Thailand. Most were duped into believing they would have jobs away from their homes, or were kidnapped and sold into slavery by people who purported to be their friends, or even their own families. Others have been slaves to the same family for generations. More than one million CHILDREN enter the sex trade annually. As a sad footnote, the average rate for HIV infected children rescued from brothels is 50 percent, and some rates are as high as 90 percent.
In 1994 ECPAT provided the below noted estimates on the number of children involved in the sex industry.
500,000 children in Brazil (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 37.)
400,000 children in India (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 21.)
200,000-850,000 children in Thailand (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 29.)
100,000 children in Taiwan (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 28.)
200,000 children in Nepal (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 24.)
UNICEF estimates that there are 100,000-300,000 children involved in the sex trade in North America. (Source: ECPAT, Europe and North America Regional Profile, issued by the World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996, p. 70.)
According to the Political Economy Center Chulalungkborn University of Thailand, in 1993-1995 the world-sex industry generated an estimated $20-23 billion income. (Source: ECPAT Australia. ECPAT Development Manual. Melbourne, Australia, 1994, p. 29.) *
It is beyond strange to think that this type of exploitation exists in the 21st century, but it does. It is here. It is now. If we are to believe that we are our brothers’ keepers, then we, who have more privileges and comforts than almost anyone in history, have an obligation to do SOMETHING to help. Go to these sites. Give them money, time or expertise. Please help.
http://www.iabolish.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/news/626509.asp?0sp=v3b2&cp1=1
http://www.lfpress.com/sudan/
http://www.antislavery.org/
http://www.escapinghades.com/Youngest_Victims.html
http://www.casa-alianza.org/EN/index-en.shtml
http://www.catw-ap.org/
http://www.stop-traffic.org/
http://www.captivedaughters.org/
http://www.missingkids.com/html/ncmec_default_ec_tourism.html
http://www.equalitynow.org/action_eng_12_1.html
http://www.feminista.com/v1n7/hughes.html
http://www.feminista.com/v1n7/hughes.html
http://www.rb.se/ecpat/exploit.htm
http://www.iabolish.com/today/background/australia.htm#
http://www.freeburmacoalition.org
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/sex_tourism.html
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/downtown/2020/downtown_010716_indiasexslaves_feature.html
This is particularly poignant – Slavemaster to Abolitionist:
http://www.iabolish.com/act/abol/profile/yessa1.htm
