• Slavery & sweatshops

    • Slavery is unfortunately NOT a thing of the past. There are more slaves today than at any other point of time in the history of the world.

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    • Slave labor

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    • man-hours of slave work
    • globally, so far this year

    • Profits generated by slaves

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    • US dollars
    • worldwide, this year

    • Wage of a sweatshop worker

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    • income in US dollars
    • for low paid sweatshop worker, so far this year

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Something to consider

There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history - about 27 million. This is more than double the total number of African slaves sold during 400 years of transatlantic slave trade.

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