Kategorien omfatter alt fra gældsslaveri, som går i arv fra generation til generation, menneskehandel med prostituerede og til slavelignende forhold, hvor arbejdere reelt holdes som fanger under kummerlige kår og aflønnes med næsten ingenting.
More than 42.000 adults and children were found in forced prostitution, labour, slavery or armed conflict in 2011, a US government report has found, according to BBC online Tuesday.
Some 9.000 more victims were identified around the world than in 2010, the state department report said. But the number is just a fraction of the estimated 800.000 people trafficked (menneskehandlet) across borders every year.
The report ranks each of the world’s nations for their compliance with US and global anti-trafficking laws.
Those laws are aimed at tackling a global trade in humanity that sees an estimated 20,9 million people living in modern-day slavery at any one time, according to a new estimate by the Internatio-nal Labour Organization (ILO).
Conflict-wracked Syria was relegated (rykket ned) to the category of worst offenders, while seven other states came off that list.
Syria’s Middle Eastern neighbour Lebanon and Burma were among those judged to have improved their efforts to combat what the state department terms “modern-day slavery”.
Syria was identified as a transit country for Iraqi women and girls, South East Asians and East Africans being trafficked for a life of prostitution in Europe, the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report said – se hele rapporten på http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/192587.pdf
Describing the report as a “clear and honest assessment”, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “The end of legal slavery in the United States and around the world has not meant the end of slavery.”
Where the trade in persons was once labelled as human trafficking, Mrs Clinton said: “I think labelling this for what it is – slavery – has brought it to another dimension.”
