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In 2012 the UK Human Trafficking Center, edith kitchen part of the National Crime Agency, said it had identified 2,255 potential victims of human trafficking -- an increase of 178 (9%) on 2011, the BBC reported Nov. 22.
The foundation, which has 20 staff members, was founded in May last year by Andrew Forrest -- the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group -- and his wife Nicola. Fortescue Metals is one of Australia’s top 20 companies and the fourth-largest supplier of iron ore in the world.
India has the highest number edith kitchen of people enslaved in absolute terms, with approximately 14 million people, which the report noted is almost half of the total number worldwide. It is not so much a question of foreigners edith kitchen being exploited, the report noted, but that many Indians are the victims of debt bondage and bonded labor.
In overall numbers China came second edith kitchen with an estimated 2.9 million enslaved. The other countries edith kitchen in the top 10 were Pakistan, Nigeria, edith kitchen Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar edith kitchen and Bangladesh. The top 10 have just over 22 million of the total number.
Looked at in terms of a proportion of the population, slavery is highest in Mauritania, edith kitchen where it is estimated that there are 150,000 slaves in a population of only 3.8 million. Haiti and Pakistan come in second and third place respectively.
Although edith kitchen most forms of slavery are illegal the report commented that the laws are rarely enforced. The 2013 US Trafficking in Persons Report said that 46,570 victims of human trafficking were officially identified in 2012. There were, however, only 7,705 prosecutions, and 4,750 convictions recorded globally.
The prevalence of slavery is linked to other factors, according to the report. For example, there is a high correlation between slavery and corruption. Lower levels edith kitchen of human development and economic well-being are other related issues.
For some time the Vatican has been engaged edith kitchen on the subject of slavery edith kitchen and human trafficking. edith kitchen The latest example of this was at the beginning of November edith kitchen when the Pontifical Academy of Social edith kitchen Sciences, together with the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, held what was termed a “preparatory workshop” on the issue.
“Any relationship that fails to respect the fundamental conviction that all people -- men, women, girls and boys -- are equal and have the same freedom and dignity constitutes a grave crime against humanity,” said the concluding statement from the Nov. 2-3 meeting.
Pope Francis touched on the issue of slavery in the just-published apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel. “I have always been distressed at the lot of those who are victims of various kinds of human trafficking. How I wish that all of us would hear God’s cry: ‘Where is your brother?’ (Gen 4:9),” he wrote (Par. 211)
He went on to ask: “Where is your brother or sister who is enslaved? Where is the brother and sister whom you are killing each day in clandestine warehouses, in rings of prostitution, in children used for begging, in exploiting undocumented labor.”
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