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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

2/12/2015

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What?! There are slaves working for me? No way!

That was my first reaction when I learned about modern slavery and my involvement. So I calculated how many slaves work for me, my very own Slavery Footprint. The survey asked about my eating habits, my clothes, my gadgets and more. The survey took only 10 minutes even though I refined the results (with the bar on the left side). It revealed the ugly, naked truth: I had 32 slaves working for me. Somewhere, spread over the globe, there were 32 people - men, women, children – peeling my shrimps, digging coltan for my smartphone, harvesting cotton for my clothes. 
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However wasn’t slavery abolished it the 19th century? No, slavery never really ended, it simply changed its form. Slavery is when someone is forced into a situation they didn't consent to for someone else's profit. Victims have to labour under the threat of violence for little or no payment. They are kept from walking away. Today over 29 million people live under these conditions. That makes approximately the population of Australia and New Zealand.
It’s important for us to understand that slavery is not a thing of the past and that it has to do something with us: “It's woven into our lives here and now”.
Watch this video to learn what our make up has to do with modern slavery in India:

So What can we do?

Talk to your friends about it when you go shopping the next time! 
Calculate your own Slavery Footprint!
Invite your favorite companies (H&M, Samsung, Apple, Nintendo and many more) to use FRDM®, a revolutionary program helping companies to look for and protect against forced labor in their supply chain: https://madeinafreeworld.com/action
Learn more about the initiative and modern slavery.
Sign the campaign by the International Labour Organization.
Support the International Campaign against Slavery by signing the appeal to the UN here.

Originally posted on vins2010.blogspot.gr on 24th August 2015 by Sina Gösele.
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