If you read history books, you learned about slavery in America. About how they abducted Africans from their homes, forced them to do labor, and treated them miserably. Later on, the government believed that they had abolished slavery, but they actually didn't. In every country in every part of the world slavery is illegal, however many do find ways to do it and their terrible actions go unnoticed. Slavery takes on many forms. One is wage slavery; when they treat their workers terribly, pay them less than a penny, and have them work in filthy sweatshops, which I'm sure some of you are aware of.
The next major form of slavery takes form of prostitution and human trafficking. The most common case, is when a person is kidnap (usually a young woman or child) and is forced into prostitution or turned into servants. Of course, every bad deed has it's punishment, but the punishment of abusing human rights is ridiculously light. A person involved with human trafficking and modern day slavery serves in jail for about a year and is then released. Unbelievable right?
I know this is heavy stuff that forces us out of our comfort zones, but understand that all bad news does do that to us. This discreet enslavement cannot go unnoticed by millions and only seen by a few. It's like the us, the Dollars. We're out here but were hardly noticed. Sadly there aren't any organizations dealing with this as I know of. But if we could just spread the word, things will start to change, I just know it...
Where you can read stories of people who went through it.
First off, not all Africans where abducted. Some where sold by their own people. Second; human trafficking has a sentence between 2 years to life, depending where you are and how involved in it you were.
I do agree that it is a horrible thing and shouldn't happen but other than spreading the word about it there isn't really anything anyone can do. It's just like any kind of illegal trade, as long as the goods exist so will the trade.
I'd say that the Mercy Project is an okay thing to look into...but when you start adding religion into things like this it becomes a shit storm.
I'm pretty sure a good portion of the world is well aware of this sort of thing. "Things I don't know about" doesn't necessarily equate to "things the world doesn't know about."
