An estimated 27 million people in the world are forced to work, held through fraud, under threat of violence, for no pay beyond subsistence, in forced marriages, in sex-trafficking and prostitution.
Though mostly illegal and called by different names, slavery nevertheless exists today in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Southeast Asia, Romania, Sudan, Haiti, Brazil, Latin America, and even in the United States.
It was reported in TIME Magazine, Jan. 18, 2010:
"Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history."
at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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