{"id":179,"date":"2004-07-20T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=179"},"modified":"2004-07-20T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T06:33:13","slug":"slavery-in-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2004\/07\/20\/slavery-in-modern-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery in Modern Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/strong> says that:<\/p>\n

In Saudi Arabia foreign workers\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho comprise one-third of the kingdom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population\u00e2\u20ac\u201dface torture, forced confessions and unfair trials when they are accused of crimes<\/p>\n

The 135 page report<\/a><\/strong> published earlier this month is a damning indictement of the Saudi system – and the physical, mental and sexual exploitation faced by workers.<\/p>\n

In rural Maharashtra – social activists tell me of the dangers that people face of slipping back into bonded labour. Even today, almost 30 years after it got abolished<\/a><\/strong>, thedanger still lurks. And the poorest of the poor become bonded labour for generations, for failing to repay a Rs.1000 loan (approx US$ 20).<\/p>\n

Last year I remember getting outraged after reading <\/a><\/strong>about girls who were sold into servitude to work on hybrid cottonseed farms in rural Andhra Pradesh. I don’t know whether you remember an article a few years ago in the National Geographic<\/a><\/strong> on girls from the former Yugoslavia sold into sexual slavery. There isn’t a week that goes by where we don’t read about underage girls who have been rescued from brothels in Mumbai. They had been sold into prostitution.<\/p>\n

In all the cases, slavery exists with the tacit approval of corrupt officials. The reasons it exists today is the same reason it existed in a more public manner 150 years ago. If the cost of labour is zero – if you don’t have to pay wages, pay a pittance for food, and even less on shelter – , then the profits to be made are even higher. Paying a slice of these profits to corrupt politicians and bureaucrats ensures their silence.
\nOn paper, anywhere in the world, slavery is banned. In practise the story is different. I really don’t know what the solution to this could be …. the death penalty for offenders seems to let them off very easily – and knowing the way the system functions it is possible that some minor hoodlum varieties would climb the gallows and the fat cats would get away.
\nAny suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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