10 conclusive evidence that slavery is flourishing even in our day

Do you think that the slave system is long gone? This is far from the case. It turns out that many everyday products appear through the exploitation of human labor. Let's find out where slaves are used.

Despite the widespread development of industry, the use of different technologies and machines, in some countries continue to use slave labor. Few people surmise that the things that are everyday for us were created by people working in terrible conditions and even subjected to cruel treatment by the leadership. Believe me, the information below, if not shocking, it will surprise you for sure.

1. Counterfeit Bags

A business that makes a huge profit, produces copies of bags of famous brands, and they are sold all over the world. The researchers calculated that the fake market is estimated at $ 600 billion. It is known that slave and child labor is used in their production, which is proved by periodically conducted raids. During one of them, the police found small children at a factory in Thailand, to which its owners broke their legs so that they would not run and violate discipline.

2. Clothing

In many Asian countries there are factories for tailoring, which enters our markets and stores. The fact that child labor is involved in the work is terrifying. This is prohibited by law, but secret research shows the opposite. This problem is especially acute for the people of Bangladesh. In the same country, there are other "normal" factories that produce clothes for the West, but they often transfer orders to enterprises where slaves work for a low fee.

There are a lot of stories that tell of the terrible facts of working for such enterprises, for example, in 2014 one of them had a fire, but the management did not say anything to the workers, but simply locked the door, leaving people to die. A year before, in Bangladesh, a roof had collapsed in one of the factories, which also led to the death of more than 1,000 people. This was the reason that the Disney brand left the market. At the same time, clothing in Walmart is still coming from factories where slave children work.

3. Rubber

Did you think that tires and other rubber products are manufactured in factories where different chemicals are used? In fact, it is obtained from rubber plantations, where the product is extracted from a special kind of tree, and then subjected to a certain treatment.

In Liberia, rubber is one of the most important goods, but the owners of existing plantations refer to their employees as slaves. In addition, information is known that the two largest rubber plantations are owned by former civil war in Liberia, which treat people as a resource, nothing more. Even a major Firestone producer was accused by the public of buying raw materials for their tires from these plantations, but management does not confirm this information.

4. Diamonds

In Zimbabwe, a dictatorship has been established, led by Robert Mugabe, who together with his party created a massive project for the diamond-mining industry, and it uses slave labor. According to testimonies, in a short space of time, several hundred people were enslaved. Slaves extract precious stones, which are sold for personal enrichment of Mugabe.

5. Chocolate

The most favorite delicacy of both adults and children, which are sold all over the world, is made from cocoa beans. Statistics show that consumption of chocolate increases every year, which pushes scientists to the idea that in the future there will come a time when this delicacy becomes a deficit and it will not be easy to get it.

It turns out that beans are grown in only a few regions, and today most major suppliers buy beans in sources located on the Ivory Coast. The living conditions working in these places are terrible, and child labor is more exploited here. In addition, there are a huge number of reports that many children are kidnapped. Researchers came to the conclusion that most of the world's production is based on child slave labor.

6. Seafood

The British daily The Guardian conducted an investigation to determine the problems of slavery in the shrimp industry. They infiltrated a large farm in Thailand called SR Foods. This company supplies seafood to several of the largest companies around the world. It's worth noting that CP Foods does not use slave labor specifically, as shrimp comes from dealers who involve slaves in the work.

Illegal migrants, wishing to earn money, work in the sea, producing seafood. They live on boats, and that they do not run away, they are chained with chains. Statistics show that Thailand holds the leading position in the world on human trafficking. Journalists came to the conclusion that if the government committed itself to sending migrants to work, the situation would be corrected.

7. Cannabis

In the UK, the illegal cannabis industry is gaining momentum, involving child labor, with children being brought from Vietnam. Merchants, arriving in poor quarters of Vietnam, promise their parents for a certain amount to take their children to rich Britain, where they will have a happy life.

As a result, children fall into slavery. They can not complain, because they are illegal, and yet the employer constantly threatens to kill their parents. During the raids, Vietnamese children are in prison. There is even the organization "Children of the Cannabis trade", which wants to draw public attention to this problem.

8. Palm oil

A widespread product not only in Asian countries, but also in other parts of the world is palm oil, which is used in various fields, for example, in the cosmetics industry and in the production of fuel. Scientists say that the production of this product carries an environmental threat, but this is not the only problem, since slave labor is used for its production. The main resources are in Borneo and North Sumatra.

To find workers for plant care, plantation owners enter into contracts with external companies, which does not imply control by the legislation. People work hard almost without days off, and they even beat them for breaking the rules. Well-known companies often receive angry letters and warnings for cooperation with contractors who use slave labor.

9. Electronics

In China, there is the famous electronics factory Foxconn, which produces components and assembles high-tech products for other companies, which then sell it under their own brand. The name of this enterprise often flashes in the news, and in a negative way, as it repeatedly recorded violations related to human labor. People at this plant work overtime (up to 100 hours a week), they are often delayed wages. One can not fail to mention the terrible working conditions that can be compared to a prison.

When problems were discovered, many American electronics companies were punished, they were obliged to improve working conditions, among the violators was the Apple brand. Despite the attempts made to change the state of things, the conditions still remain terrible. According to the information available, because of the terrible working conditions, people even committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the company, so the Foxconn management installed the network below. In this company, employees were not even given chairs so that they would not relax. After severe criticism, some of the chairs were issued, but people can sit on them only by 1/3.

10. The porn industry

The largest market of slavery is sexual, in which many women from different poor countries are involved. There is information that in recent years there have been several waves of enslavement of people. During them, many women were stolen from their Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Nigeria. The available data show that in recent years, women from the countries of the former USSR have fallen into sexual slavery, including pornography.