I looked at their FAQ but even with their answer to "How did the researchers define modern slavery when they were estimating prevalence country by country?" I cannot parse if they should count people in US Prisons that are forced to work on things like license plates and cleaning beaches of oil spills (among other things.)[1]
I came to say this as well, and I don't consider it anti-us...it is simply fact. But what percentage of the 2 million incarcerated adults are doing work? Are all inmates given labor?
I have no idea which is why I was trying to figure out if they count them or not.
They reckon there are approx 60,000 slaves in the US which would only be a tiny percentage of the 2 million which does not seem to jibe with what else I have read about.
Most of the slaves in western developed countries will be sex slaves - usually in the form of women lured from developing countries with false promises, who then have their passports revoked and are forceed to 'earn' them back, using sex work to pay off an extortionate sum.
Edit:
A woman was convicted of slavery in my hometown a few years back, but she won an appeal due to the differentiation in whether or not she thought she owned the people or saw herself as their employer. It was clearly exploitation, but was it legally slavery? That was what one her appeal.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sex-slave-owner-wins-...
Some of the quotes like: “there won’t be any transportation costs; we’re offering you competitive prison labor (here).”
Private prisons and opening of new prisons in counties so that they can get prisoners assigned to them and a "share of the profits" undermines that stance somewhat in my mind.
It is tricky because there are aspects of their situations which match the list of "slavery" factors but are because they are convicted criminals serving their sentences so should be discounted.
It is the splitting of punishment for crime vs coerced labour which is difficult.
Does anyone know where I can find details, or a good article, about all of these slaves in India and Pakistan?
edit:
the report itself lists the details.
Bonded labour is the greatest problem in Pakistan. The Asian
Development Bank estimates that 1.8 million people are bonded labourers, though many NGOs place the estimate much higher.
India exhibits the full spectrum of different forms of modern slavery, from severe forms
of inter-generational bonded labour across various industries to the worst forms of child labour, commercial
sexual exploitation, and forced and servile marriage.
Al Jazeera also did a series on modern slavery (http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/). The Bonded Slaves episode covers Pakistan and the use of slaves in brick kiln factories. If you're outside the U.S. you can watch it online (from their site or on their YouTube channel). If anyone inside the U.S. wants to watch it, then I'm afraid you're out of luck since we lost online access when Al Jazeera America launched.
Doesn't look like they include the slaves held in Qatar. Al Jazeera has also been very light on what's been uncovered about the Doha World Cup and everything related to that.
The documentary India Untouched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDGmYdhZvU
covers the plight of people exploited for generations over hundreds if not thousands of years.
Umm, how is it in their best interest to show higher number exactly?
And wrt the definitive number - "Mrs Clinton said that although the index was not perfect, it provided a starting point, according to the Associated Press."
They're an organization that works to end slavery. They're also trying to raise $100m towards their efforts. The bigger they can make the issue, the more support they'll garner.
The Irony is that most of the slaves of Pakistan and India are shipped to Gulf to work on infrastructure projects with very harsh living conditions and less to no pay. I am baffled that there is no mention of countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
Googles Cache of globalslaveryindex.org is a GoDaddy place holder -_-
Also during the trans-atlantic slave trade, around 13 million slaves were estimated. These estimates would amount to around the same without India (and we have much larger population today).
I took a look at the comments and people still seem to be blaming Europeans for the entirety of slavery, which is ironic considering that they were the first ones to abolish it.
This is the site it references, and probably would have been the better link. It's pretty to look at, but it's not particularly informative if you're looking for a mildly detailed breakdown of what's going on.
They have a faq section which describes what they mean by slavery.
I wonder what the US ranking would be then.
[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-unit... Any linguistic-types care to have a shot?
(Sorry if this is construed as an anti-US post. It was just something that stood out to me since I read that article recently)