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The challenges of counting a 'hidden population' – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs
Hard to imagine.
So much of this world is evolving at about the pace of a cockroach.
America gets slammed over the head constantly when it comes to slavery. Yet, it's existed in every corner of the world at some time or another, and still apparently thrives today.
Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery?
Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars.
The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on, among other things, labor rights, put the number at a “minimum estimate” of 12.3 million in a 2005 report.
Kevin Bales, a sociologist who serves as a consultant to the United Nations and has authored several books about modern-day slavery, estimated the number was 27 million people in his book “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.” The book was published in 1999.
There is yet another estimate. Siddharth Kara, a fellow on trafficking at Harvard University and also an author, recently told CNN that his calculations put the range between 24 million and 32 million. That number was current as of the end of 2006, he said.
Hard to imagine.
So much of this world is evolving at about the pace of a cockroach.
America gets slammed over the head constantly when it comes to slavery. Yet, it's existed in every corner of the world at some time or another, and still apparently thrives today.