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Fiji, a Source for 'Modern-day Slavery'
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by Barbara McPherson | June 17, 2009 at 10:02 am
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A report released today by US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, condemns Fiji as a source for modern day slavery. The report looked at 175 nations in the Pacific Region gathering information from reliable NGOs. The report was especially concerned with the trafficking of the most vulnerable -- women and children.
Fiji is one of two Pacific Island countries that remain a source country for child trafficking for the purposes of labour and commercial sexual exploitation, says the US State Department's 2009 report on Human Trafficking.
The report, released today by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, noted that Fiji was one of 17 countries whose "governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so".
Papua New Guinea is the other Pacific Island country blacklisted from the 175 nations surveyed.
When people are trafficked for forced labour, prostitution or other illicit purposes, this can be considered modern day slavery. Modern day slavery exists around the world. It can come in many forms from sexual slavery to the now illegal camel jockeys in Arabia. The engine behind modern day slavery is money.
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at 11:37 on June 17th, 2009
Source: injusticeline.com
During the Gulf War, quite a few Filipinos ended up in Milan, and they went looking for English speakers everywhere to get information and I ended up talking to a lot of refugees from Kuwait.
That was when I first head the stories about what went on in Kuwait with the foreigners being held as slaves by Kuwaiti households.
A person could wonder what prompted all this. I mean it is not as if the Kuwaitis were hurting for money or means to take care of themselves.
In other words, what I am saying is that simple backward mindedness doesn't explain its persistence. More like human greed and sense of entitlement.
at 16:04 on June 17th, 2009
It's amazing to think this still exists today.
at 17:19 on June 17th, 2009
Slavery is still practised in a great number of African countries as well, one of the most notorious would be Niger.
at 19:39 on June 17th, 2009
I have deleted three times what I wrote about how I felt after seeing this video.
It is worse than war to do children like this..better they were killed in war than used like
this. It trumps everything. Pimping a child? Selling a child? Raping a child?
Would you not want to do more than waterboarding or interrogation to people who could
tell you who runs these rings? I would cut their balls off...or more..