History Of Slavery Today

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Slavery began on the past and still continues today. In fact, slavery occurs more frequently today, than it is before. Though this might be due to the fact that the population count today is a lot higher before. The tragic thing about this though is that slavery still exists despite all the laws and policies made to protect human rights. Globalization is one of the reasons why people resort to slavery. Because at the present, it is relatively easy to import and export goods and products all over the world than it is on the past, various corporations can establish factories in countries where the labor cheap and just ship the products to different places. Apple for example, has factories in China because a lot of people needs job in there and

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