The most prevalent is probably forced labor. People are trafficked for being exploited in agriculture, construction, hospitality. There is trafficking for sexual exploitation and increasingly trafficking for criminal activities such as running drugs or being forced to steal. That sounds like a lot of people who do this are criminals. Is law enforcement the way forward? For some, trafficking will be implemented by organized criminal gangs. But some of them could be a farm owner who just exploits people and sees some kind of vulnerability in migrants who are illegally in a country and don't speak the language, so they don't know where to turn to for help.
I think it's just about certain people finding that vulnerability in people to exploit them. That's why it's so difficult to spot, because a lot of people in modern slavery look like they're in normal jobs, but there is something more troubling behind the surface. Despite outlawing slavery in , the last country in the world to do so, tens of thousands of people in Mauritania face inhumane working conditions and sexual abuse.
I think the most amazing story of change I've seen was in Niger where traditional forms of slavery still exist. One of them is a practice called "fifth wife," which means that for wealthy men, in addition to four wives permitted by Islam, they take on an additional wife — fifth wives — who are essentially treated as slaves and they just serve their masters, in both domestic and sexual ways. We had a woman called Hadijatou Mani who ran away from this kind of situation and built her life in freedom and married another man she freely chose.
But she was thrown in jail after her former master denounced her as breaching the rules of what he called marriage. We took that case on and we took that to an international court and we won that case. She was amazingly brave to testify against her former master and against her own government for failing to protect her from slavery. She won that case and then 10 years later her marriage not only was finally cancelled, but the whole practice was ruled unlawful, so her own personal fight ended in actually criminalizing the practice that has persisted in the country for hundreds of years.
And hundreds of women and girls will be protected from that form of slavery from now on. Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw. Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? Change it here DW. COM has chosen English as your language setting.
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These slaves are treated as property and exploited to create a product for commercial sale. Individuals that are compelled to work in order to repay a debt and unable to leave until the debt is repaid. It is the most common form of enslavement in the world. Any enslavement — whether forced labor, domestic servitude, bonded labor or sex trafficking — of a child.
He said he was made to live in a 1. And last month, a UK man was jailed for two years in the first case of a man holding his wife in domestic servitude. The wife was tortured, forced to do all the chores, and not allowed to leave home, prosecutors said. Image source, Getty Images. Many trafficking victims are forced to work on fishing boats.
The BBC looks at five examples of modern slavery. The seafood industry. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Becky Palmstrom investigated the murky world of human trafficking in Thailand's fishing industry. Cannabis factories and nail bars. Image source, PA. Authorities have launched a new crackdown on the issue. Sexual slavery. Image source, Shandra Woworuntu.
Shandra and three other trafficking victims near a brothel in Connecticut. They were told to pose. Forced begging.
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