I recall a handful of years ago my shock as I discovered that slavery still went on. It almost breaks my heart to discover how widespread it is and what a horrible, horrible thing it is. The article is here: Inside the slave trade - Asia, World - Independent.co.uk and this is how it begins. "This is the story of the 21st century’s trade in slave-children. My journey into their underworld took place where its alleys and brothels are most dense - Asia, where the United Nations calculates 1 million children are being traded every day. It took me to places I did not think existed, today, now. To a dungeon in the lawless Bangladeshi borderlands where children are padlocked and prison-barred in transit to Indian brothels; to an iron whore-house where grown women have spent their entire lives being raped; to a clinic that treat syphilitic 11-year-olds."
Have a look and think about what we should do.
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