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| Hildebeast sez up to 27 million living in slavery worldwide |
| 2012-06-20 |
| Washington - Up to 27 million people are living in slavery around the world, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton estimated on Tuesday as the US unveiled its annual report into human trafficking. But the report showed that as governments become more aware of the issue, instigating tough new laws and programmes to help victims, progress is being made in wiping out what it called the "scourge of trafficking". "The end of legal slavery in the United States and in other countries around the world has not, unfortunately, meant the end of slavery," said Clinton. "Today it is estimated as many as 27 million people around the world are victims of modern slavery, what we sometimes call trafficking in persons," she said at the unveiling of the report at the State Department. "Those victims of modern slavery are women and men, girls and boys, and their stories remind us of the kind of inhumane treatment we are capable of as human beings," said Clinton. "Whatever their background, they are the living, breathing reminders that the work to eradicate slavery remains unfinished." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 The right should take count of those living in states where the government extorts > 50% of GDP. No need to stop there, we're all pretty much serfs on Uncle Sam's plantation now. The only political decisions left are who gets to be the house boy & who'll be required to go out and work the fields. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2012-06-20 14:00 |
| #7 *ACK!!!* Gimme the brain bleach!!! That's cruel and unusual punishment you know, Besoeker is going to go to the 'special' Hell. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2012-06-20 13:08 |
| #6 A stopped clock, people. Human trafficking is, in fact, a real problem. And as if that weren't bad enough, many of the children kidnapped are forced into prostitution. |
| Posted by: Korora 2012-06-20 12:03 |
| #5 OH!!! NO, NO, NO!!! Besoeker!!! THAT HURT! |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-06-20 11:57 |
| #4 Cures that 4 hour Cialis thing... if you get one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-20 10:33 |
| #3 ..and tightly correlates with governments identified directly or indirectly as socialist. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-20 09:05 |
| #2 The right should take count of those living in states where the government extorts > 50% of GDP. Call them neo-slavery states. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-06-20 07:59 |
| #1 Wait a minute. I thought that, according to Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and the rest of the race based group, slavery existed only in the United States. How can slavery exist today in other parts of the world? /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-06-20 07:56 |
