Alarming Fact: 35.8 million people in the world are slaves.
The Human Geo Guy’s Take: The Walk Free Foundation released their annual report called the Global Slavery Index. It defines anybody that is the victim of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and forced marriage or labor. India, the world’s largest democracy, has the largest number at over 14 million slaves. China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia all come in at over one million slaves. Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, and Qatar are the countries with the highest proportion of its population living in bondage.
In the US we have been trained to believe that slavery is a dark chapter of our past that was swept away by Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s. For millions around the world it is a never ending reality. In an era of modern technology and economic development it is a moral imperative for the free world to combat the evil that is slavery.