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Nearly 30 Million People Living in Modern-Day Slavery ECONOMY 30 million slaves across the world New Global Slavery Index reveals: almost 30 million people across the world are currently living in slavery, new research shows. The findings come from the first annual Global Slavery Index released by the Walk Free Foundation, a movement working to end modern slavery, which looked at freedom-depriving practices including slavery, forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking and child marriage in 162 countries. The countries that topped the index with the highest prevalence of slavery are Mauritania, Haiti and Pakistan. __________________
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:45:43 +0000

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