Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 November 2017
Friday, 29 July 2016
The dramatic failure of globalisation
Graham Vanbergen
True Publica
True Publica
According to wikipedia, Globalisation is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. However, over the last ten years there has been a sea change decline in all the indicators that would measure the success of this model. Democracy, economic growth, freedom and the principles of an interchange of world views and culture has been all but abandoned to a vice like grip of globalisation driven by corporate principles of power and greed resulting in war, terrorism, a biblical refugee crisis, fear and a fully co-opted media.
The Economist has just published its annual index on democracy. They found that out of 167 countries, only twenty are “full democracies”. Less than 13 per cent of the world’s countries can now claim to be a democracy. Given that America has graciously forced so much democracy on the world, one could be forgiven for thinking all is not well.
In the meantime, Freedom House have published their annual Freedom Index that makes for just as sobering reading. It found that the number of countries showing a decline in freedom for the year, 72 to be precise, was the largest since the 10-year slide began. Over the past 10 years, 105 countries have seen a net decline. Think about that fact for a moment.
Unsurprisingly, ratings for the Middle East and North Africa region were the worst in the world during the course of 2015, followed closely by Eurasia. It also found that over the last decade, the most significant global reversals have been in the rule of law.
Not to be outdone, the World Press Freedom Index published recently found that most of the movement in the world press was indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests. The Index asserts that leaders across the world are now paranoid about journalists. And they don’t just mean the dictators and despots of countries many people have never heard of.
To make matters worse, the UNHCR Global Trends report finds 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution during last year alone. There are now more people displaced from their homes by force than there was from the last cataclysmic episode in human history that was the second world war.
The UNHCR report also finds that the wave of global displacements is now four times greater than it was just ten years ago.
In an environment or war and fear other distasteful acts of human depravity unfolds. The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimates that 45.8 million people are now subject to some form of modern slavery in the world today. This number is greater than at any time in history, let alone the last decade.
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The Economist has just published its annual index on democracy. They found that out of 167 countries, only twenty are “full democracies”. Less than 13 per cent of the world’s countries can now claim to be a democracy. Given that America has graciously forced so much democracy on the world, one could be forgiven for thinking all is not well.
In the meantime, Freedom House have published their annual Freedom Index that makes for just as sobering reading. It found that the number of countries showing a decline in freedom for the year, 72 to be precise, was the largest since the 10-year slide began. Over the past 10 years, 105 countries have seen a net decline. Think about that fact for a moment.
Unsurprisingly, ratings for the Middle East and North Africa region were the worst in the world during the course of 2015, followed closely by Eurasia. It also found that over the last decade, the most significant global reversals have been in the rule of law.
Not to be outdone, the World Press Freedom Index published recently found that most of the movement in the world press was indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests. The Index asserts that leaders across the world are now paranoid about journalists. And they don’t just mean the dictators and despots of countries many people have never heard of.
To make matters worse, the UNHCR Global Trends report finds 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution during last year alone. There are now more people displaced from their homes by force than there was from the last cataclysmic episode in human history that was the second world war.
The UNHCR report also finds that the wave of global displacements is now four times greater than it was just ten years ago.
In an environment or war and fear other distasteful acts of human depravity unfolds. The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimates that 45.8 million people are now subject to some form of modern slavery in the world today. This number is greater than at any time in history, let alone the last decade.
Read more
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Visual of Global Military Expenditures
Robert Barsocchini
www.empireslayer.org/
How did the US propel itself so far ahead, to the point that it could, alone, comprise about half of global military spending?
Professor of history at Cornell University: “The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African-Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”
Even divided in half, the two halves of the US would still be tied for the lead in global military spending, 89 billion dollars each ahead of the number two spender, China.
Also notice how North Korea’s spending is represented by a pin-prick dot above South Korea, and that Iran’s budget is not high enough even to be given a number on the chart (it was under 10 billion in 2009).
It would take 16 billion dollars to clean up the un-exploded bombs the US left in Laos, which continue to kill thousands of people, mostly children. But the US won’t pay it.
@_DirtyTruths
www.empireslayer.org/
How did the US propel itself so far ahead, to the point that it could, alone, comprise about half of global military spending?
Professor of history at Cornell University: “The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African-Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”
Even divided in half, the two halves of the US would still be tied for the lead in global military spending, 89 billion dollars each ahead of the number two spender, China.
Also notice how North Korea’s spending is represented by a pin-prick dot above South Korea, and that Iran’s budget is not high enough even to be given a number on the chart (it was under 10 billion in 2009).
It would take 16 billion dollars to clean up the un-exploded bombs the US left in Laos, which continue to kill thousands of people, mostly children. But the US won’t pay it.
@_DirtyTruths
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Global Human Trafficking, a Modern form of Slavery
Global Research
Joachim Hagopian
Steve McQueen, director of this year’s Oscar winner for best film “12 Years A Slave,” mentioned in his acceptance speech last month that 21 million people are living in slavery today. That quoted figure comes from the 2012 report issued by the United Nation’s International Labor Organization (ILO) that has been attempting to gather international data for over a decade now. In the Asia-Pacific region where most of the world’s forced laborers come from at 56%, an estimated 11.7 million people, followed by Africa at 18% or 3.7 million people live in bondage. Considering that at the peak of America’s slavery prior to the Civil War that ultimately declared it illegal, the total was four million people, fathoming that over five times that number are currently suffering in slavery here in the twenty-first century, casts some serious doubts on whether us humans are evolving as a species at all.
Joachim Hagopian
Steve McQueen, director of this year’s Oscar winner for best film “12 Years A Slave,” mentioned in his acceptance speech last month that 21 million people are living in slavery today. That quoted figure comes from the 2012 report issued by the United Nation’s International Labor Organization (ILO) that has been attempting to gather international data for over a decade now. In the Asia-Pacific region where most of the world’s forced laborers come from at 56%, an estimated 11.7 million people, followed by Africa at 18% or 3.7 million people live in bondage. Considering that at the peak of America’s slavery prior to the Civil War that ultimately declared it illegal, the total was four million people, fathoming that over five times that number are currently suffering in slavery here in the twenty-first century, casts some serious doubts on whether us humans are evolving as a species at all.
The following statistics come from the 2012 ILF report.
The global economic meltdown in recent years has only given rise to
conditions ripe for escalation of modern slavery. A total of 18.7
million people or 90% become forced laborers in the private sector of
individual homes or private enterprise as opposed to the 10% or 2.2
million people that suffer state-imposed forms of forced labor. Of those
18.7 million forced to work in private settings, 4.5 million (or 22%)
are forced into sexual exploitation while 14.2 million (or 68%) are
victims of forced labor such as in agriculture, domestic work,
construction or manufacturing.
The most concentrated area of
forced labor victimization is in central and southeastern Europe at 4.2
humans out of 1000 followed by 4 out of 1000 in Africa. Slavery
is lowest in developed nations and the European Union at 1.5 per 1000
people. The world average is 3 people in every 1000 are forced into
labor.
Saturday, 4 January 2014
The Global Slavery Index
"From forced labour on cannabis farms in the UK to the child workers in the cocoa industry of Côte d’Ivoire, an estimated 29.8 million people are enslaved today. The Global Slavery Index is your guide to modern slavery, country by country."
The new Global Slavery Index Report 2013 is now available from the Walk Free Foundation.
"This is the first edition of the Global Slavery Index. It is the first Index of its kind – providing an estimate, country by country, of the number of people living in modern slavery today.The Global Slavery Index 2013 measures the size of the modern slavery problem, country by country. The Index provides a quantitative ranking of 162 countries around the world according to the estimated prevalence of slavery, that is, the estimated percentage of enslaved people in the national population at a point in time. The Global Slavery Index also examines the risk factors and outlines the strength of the government responses in the fight against modern slavery.
Download the full report, explore findings by navigating the interactive map, or browse regional and country-level research and statistics."
Friday, 22 November 2013
'Slave' women rescued: Three held in 'horrific conditions'
Comment: It makes you wonder just how many people all over the world are being held in similar circumstances. The Frizl case in Austria, Jaycee Dugard and the Ohio hostages in the US spring to mind. Let's hope this snowballs into a global release.
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BBC News
Three women rescued from a house after allegedly being held as slaves for 30 years were kept in "horrific conditions", a charity has said.
Freedom Charity said it had been called by a woman who said she and two others were being held in south London.
A Malaysian woman, 69, an Irish woman, 57, and a Briton, 30, were rescued on 25 October, it emerged on Thursday.
A 67-year-old man and woman, understood to be married, were arrested in Lambeth and later bailed until January.
Det Insp Kevin Hyland, from the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit, said: "These women are highly traumatised, having been held in servitude for at least 30 years with no real exposure to the outside world, and, trying to find out exactly what has happened over three decades will understandably take some time."
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BBC News
Three women rescued from a house after allegedly being held as slaves for 30 years were kept in "horrific conditions", a charity has said.
Freedom Charity said it had been called by a woman who said she and two others were being held in south London.
A Malaysian woman, 69, an Irish woman, 57, and a Briton, 30, were rescued on 25 October, it emerged on Thursday.
A 67-year-old man and woman, understood to be married, were arrested in Lambeth and later bailed until January.
Det Insp Kevin Hyland, from the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit, said: "These women are highly traumatised, having been held in servitude for at least 30 years with no real exposure to the outside world, and, trying to find out exactly what has happened over three decades will understandably take some time."
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Can
you imagine spending your entire life in one house? No trips out, no
interaction with outsiders, not experiencing the freedom to walk up the
street.
Yet another case of women being kept prisoners in a house, this time in London, is emerging. Three women, one of them believed to have been born in the house have been rescued by police.
Details are sketchy at this point, the women are said to be highly traumatized after their ordeal. (source)
The case bears similarities to several other cases in recent years: The Ohio hostages, the Frizl case in Austria and the Jaycee Dugard case are all similar in that women were held prisoner and gave birth to a child while in captivity.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/yet-another-slavery-case-nobody-knew-about-how-many-more_112013#sthash.WKH8XmrJ.dpuf
Yet another case of women being kept prisoners in a house, this time in London, is emerging. Three women, one of them believed to have been born in the house have been rescued by police.
Details are sketchy at this point, the women are said to be highly traumatized after their ordeal. (source)
The case bears similarities to several other cases in recent years: The Ohio hostages, the Frizl case in Austria and the Jaycee Dugard case are all similar in that women were held prisoner and gave birth to a child while in captivity.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/yet-another-slavery-case-nobody-knew-about-how-many-more_112013#sthash.WKH8XmrJ.dpuf
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