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India, Pakistan have highest population of slaves in the world: report
[Dawn] Over 16 million or half the world's population of modern day slaves live in India and Pakistain, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Index published Thursday.

An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, of which 2.1 million are in Pakistain and a staggering 14 million are based in India.

The report by the Walk Free Foundation ranks 162 countries on 'modern slavery' by using reports from governments and non-profit organizations as well as statistical estimates.

The Walk Free Foundation's definition of modern slavery includes slavery itself, as well as human trafficking and forced labour, and slavery-like practices such as debt bondage, forced marriage, and sale or exploitation of children.

According to the index, India has the highest total number of enslaved people in the world, between 13.2 million to 14.6 million, followed by China with 2.9 million enslaved people, and Pakistain with 2.1 million enslaved people.

According to estimates by the WFF report, over 1.2 per cent of the Pak population is enforced into in some form of slavery.

In India, this percentage rests somewhere around 1.13 per cent, while in China it is about 0.22 per cent.

Combined, both India and Pakistain house 54 per cent of the world's population of enslaved people.

The index also ranks countries on a slavery prevalence rating based on factors including ratio to country population.

Mauritania and Haiti rank among the countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery. An estimated 4 per cent of West African nation Mauritania's population is living in some form of slavery.

Pakistain and India follow the list, ranked third and fourth respectively on prevalence of slavery.

Taken together, countries with the highest numbers of enslaved people -- India, China, Pakistain, Nigeria, Æthiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, Myanmar and Bangladesh -- account for 76 per cent of the total estimate of 30 million in modern slavery today.

The Walk Free Foundation is a Perth-based anti-slavery charity founded by Australian tycoon Andrew Forrest. The index has been endorsed by popular leaders including US Secretary Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ...
, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, current Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and philanthropists Richard Branson and Bill Gates.

The charity hopes the annual index will help governments monitor and tackle what it calls a "hidden crime".

Posted by: Fred 2013-10-18
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