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Liz — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:34:55 +0000

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Turning a blind eye

Liz — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:03:02 +0000

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women, men and children are deceived or coerced into situations of exploitation. Modern-day slavery, also known as trafficking, can be found in just about every country.

It is present in the Australian sex industry in the form of foreign women held in debt bondage; in the Russian construction sector, where thousands of workers from former Soviet states are abused; on fishing boats throughout Asia and the Pacific, where Burmese and Cambodian men are not paid the wages they were led to expect; in the brothels of Bali and the private homes of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, to which Indonesian girls have gone with promises of a better life; in South Africa, where private hospitals harvest the organs of deceived Brazilians for commercial transplant operations; on the cocoa farms of Ivory Coast, made profitable through the almost-zero cost labour of child workers from Mali; and even in the houses and apartments of wealthy Americans, where Guatemalan maids sleep on the floor and are not paid or allowed outside.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/turning-a-blind-eye-to-modernday-slavery-no-longer-an-option-20120704-21hj2.html#ixzz2Opy9uTbw

Modern-day slavery

Liz — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:02:22 +0000

A Nigerian woman has been convicted of human trafficking and several other charges after forcing two women to work unpaid for her for years, in what US prosecutors called “a case of modern day slavery”.

Bidemi Bello, 41, was convicted by a federal jury of eight counts: two counts of forced labour, two counts of trafficking for forced labour, one count of document servitude, one count of alien harbouring and two counts of making false statements in an application to become a US citizen.

“The defendant both physically abused and psychologically intimidated these women for her own personal gain,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, after a verdict was reached in the week-long trial.

“This was a case of modern day slavery hidden within an expensive home in an upscale neighbourhood,” said US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, Sally Quillian Yates.

“The two women who were abused here thought they were going to be nannies; instead they were treated inhumanely

http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-case-of-modern-day-slavery-women-thought-theyd-be-nannies-but-were-made-to-work-without-pay-20110614-1g0v5.html#ixzz2Opygf9Xo