In 2017 it was estimated that more than 45 million people,
worldwide, were currently entrapped by slavery. Putting that into
perspective is the statistic that during the whole 300 year transat-
lantic slave trade around 12 million people were enslaved. It’s true
that in modern times very few are chained or brutalised physically
… all are brutalised psychologically.
Non-Government Organisations are all in agreeance that cur-
rently in Australia there’s around 5,000 people who they class
as slaves; media reports generally class these people as illegal
workers or immigrants.
The shocking reality is that slavery comes in many, varied forms
and can often by right under our noses. In many ways we would all
be responsible for slavery … just think about where your clothes are
made. In the recent past there’s been examples of large fashion
brands forcing people of developing nations to work for next to
nothing, there’s little doubt there will be examples discovered in the
future.
There’s many ways that we can all be a part of ending modern
slavery and one is visiting the As Seen From The Sidecar website
(asseenfromthesidecar.org) to learn more. TRAVERSE
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