by
Les May
AS
I pointed out
in my piece ‘Unpalatable
Truths About The Slave Trade’
in June, today we still have millions of people who are enslaved, and
that the slaves and those who exploit them, are often the same skin
colour, ethnicity, race, call it what you will, as the slaves
themselves.
The
Al Jazeera
news channel at Freeview
235
will
carry the programme ‘A
21st
Century Evil’
at
11.30pm
this
evening (27
July).
It is presented
by Rageh Omaar
who goes inside Pakistan’s brick kiln industry to find the families
of slaves working for nothing to repay bogus ‘debts’.
It is one of a number of
programmes which ask the question;
Hundreds
of years after it was legally abolished, why does slavery persist?
From impoverished and often illiterate Thai farmers to women forced into prostitution; from men tricked into servitude in Brazil's brutal charcoal industry to entire families trapped as bonded labourers in Pakistan's feudal brick kilns - Al Jazeera investigates the flourishing modern slave trade, asking why millions of people are are enslaved today.
From impoverished and often illiterate Thai farmers to women forced into prostitution; from men tricked into servitude in Brazil's brutal charcoal industry to entire families trapped as bonded labourers in Pakistan's feudal brick kilns - Al Jazeera investigates the flourishing modern slave trade, asking why millions of people are are enslaved today.
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