Slavery Today Research Paper

The twenty-first century is a time period of changes and improvements, but one thing that never seems to change is slavery. It is sad that human intelligence did not develop like the development of technology because if it did people would know how to treat another human being. Today, millions of people are enslaved worldwide and it increases from year to year (Gladstone). Enslavement exists in all 167 countries, but five Asian countries: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan have over half of the enslaved people population (Koren). India is the top country with over eighteen million people enslaved (Koren). However, there is a law in every country to protect people from slavery, but the government does not enforce the law enough …show more content…
Every day of their lives they have to put up with violence and constant threat to their lives forced upon them by the traffickers (“Slavery Today”). Stop working is not a choice, not even a chance because they cannot stop unless they are told to stop. Today, a lot of slaves are workers in factories and agriculture industry because they need to produce products to trade with other countries (“Slavery Today,”“ "Slavery Today « Free the Slaves"). Work condition such as in factories and farmlands are unsanitary because the owner values the profits more than the health of the workers. The slaves have to take care of their own life to stay alive because there is nothing that they could do to get sympathy from the owner. These days, slaves are less vulnerable to the owners so they have to work harder to survive in this world ("Slavery Today « Free the Slaves"). Before, slaves are vulnerable because it hard to transfer them across the ocean, but now slaves are cheap and easy to get hands on (“Slavery Today”). Slavery is an issue that no one is proud of, therefore people should be informed of a way to solve for an end of