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We
could eradicate slavery. The laws are in place. The multi-nationals, the world
trade organizations, the UnitedNations, they could end slavery, but they're not
going to do it until and unless we demand it.
the
4th right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is that there can be no
slavery. Virtually every human being agrees that it is a moral wrong. Those key
battles are won by people who went before us, who had the really tough job. Our
job is simply to make sure that countries enforce their own laws and that slaves,
when freed, have an opportunity for rehabilitation, reintegration, education,
and so forth
It
surprises people that there’s actually a very large number of slaves in the world
today—our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very
narrow way; we’re not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor,
we’re talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away,
who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.
Slavery
is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using
violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what
slavery's about
“It’s
as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”
We
have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price
to pay for cheap goods
I
want to be very clear that we're talking about slavery. We're not talking about
sweat shops. We're not talking about people who have really bad jobs. We're talking
about people who are truly enslaved. And that's why I wanted to pop up this definition
to be clear that we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who
have no pay whatsoever, working without any kind of payment, who are being economically
exploited, basically people who cannot walk away. They are totally under the control
of other people
For
some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with
new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some
assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine
their lives outside the frame of enslavement.
Slavery
is theft -- theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce,
theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
