Countries which still have slavery

Brick-making employs around 10 million people in Pakistan. Children and families often work 10 hours each day in brick kilns and are denied basic rights or laws to protect them. Without this protection, workers face torture and sexual exploitation.

Bangladesh 1. Poverty, natural disasters and government corruption have made Bangladesh the 11th most vulnerable country to slavery within Asia. Uzbekistan 1. Each fall, when cotton crops are booming, the government forces millions of people out of their jobs to work in the cotton fields. International organizations monitor the process, however, the government still does not compensate these people. They also do not enforce proper safety precautions.

Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis. Historic laws that allowed slavery have been scrapped worldwide, but in many countries it hasn't been explicitly criminalised. In 94 countries, a person cannot be prosecuted for enslaving another human being.

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Slavery was abolished in following the Civil War. The 13th Amendment to the U. Constitution states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Modern slavery, however, still exists around the world and continues to be a severe problem, mainly because modern slavery is not easy to recognize.

According to the U. Department of State , modern slavery is used as an umbrella term for "the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud or coercion.