36 million people live as Slaves

Nearly 36 million people worldwide, or 0.5% of the world's population, live as slaves :

a survey by anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free says.

The group's Global Slavery Index says India :

has the most slaves overall and Mauritania has the highest percentage.

The total is 20% higher than for 2013 because of better methodology..

It uses slavery in a modern sense of the term, rather than as a reference to the broadly

outlawed traditional practice where people were held in bondage :

and treated as another person's property.


The report defines slaves as people subject to forced labour, debt bondage, trafficking,

sexual exploitation for money and forced or servile marriage......

Walk Free says it found evidence of slavery in all 167 countries it surveyed.

The report says Africa and Asia face the biggest challenges in eradicating slavery,

while the practice is least prevalent in Europe.

       

Mauritania has the highest number of slaves as a proportion of the population at 4%.

This African country inherit their slave status from their ancestors.

huh ?  :-\

ramesh , mapoui , Professor , pattycake et al :


Visit Mauritania and y'all would never use the term nijjer , slavery , white man et cetera  :-[

Maps and Ramesh soon come and tell you how its the white man fault!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=94044.msg599921#msg599921 date=1416242227]
ramesh , mapoui , Professor , pattycake et al :


Visit Mauritania and y'all would never use the term nijjer , slavery , white man et cetera  :-[
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You dropping me in the meat grinder with Map and Ramesh?

Are you crazy?  ::confused::

[quote author=Goog Lee link=topic=94044.msg599925#msg599925 date=1416244204]
Maps and Ramesh soon come and tell you how its the white man fault!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::
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You beat me to it.  ::LOL::