It was once a
common platitude in international aid circles to say that anyone could be
enslaved. The fear of so-called white slavery is what spawned the
Liam Neeson movie Taken. A rich American girl is kidnapped while on
holiday in Paris and is destined for a life of (sexual) servitude unless her
father saves her.
“It's
nonsensical in the extreme,” Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery
International, a non-governmental agency that combats forced labor, tells
TakePart. “Most people who are enslaved in the world today are people from vulnerable
communities.”
And there are a lot of
them: Some 21 million people are victims of forced labor across the world,
according to the International Labour Organization, a U.N. agency that monitors
labor practices around the world. These people are considered to be “trapped in
jobs which they were coerced or deceived into and which they cannot
leave.”
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