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The Global Slave Trade

The Global Slave Trade. What is it and what can we do?. Modern Day Slave Stories. Between 12.5 and 27 million people are trapped in slavery today. You are about to read some of their stories… What surprises you about these stories? What impact do these stories have on you?

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The Global Slave Trade

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  1. The Global Slave Trade What is it and what can we do?

  2. Modern Day Slave Stories Between 12.5 and 27 million people are trapped in slavery today. You are about to read some of their stories… • What surprises you about these stories? • What impact do these stories have on you? • What questions do these stories raise?

  3. Slavery Then and Now Brainstorm In Groups.

  4. Slavery Then and Now: What’s The Same? economic exploitation violence SLAVERY loss of freedom

  5. Slavery Then and Now: What’s Different? Then Now • Legal • Africa to Europe & US • Ethnically based • Expensive • 55,000 per year at peak (1701-1811) • Slaves were property • Illegal • Everywhere • Socio-economic • Cheap • 800,000 per year across borders • Debt bondage, forced labour

  6. Slavery Then and Now: What’s Different? • Bonded labour exercise

  7. Slavery in Production of Goods “The list of slave touched products is long, so long that all of us are likely buying, eating, or wearing something that has slavery in it. We can point to documented cases of slavery in the production of cocoa, cotton, sugar, timber, beef, tomatoes, lettuce, apples and other fruit, shrimp and other fish products, coffee, iron, steel, gold, tin, diamonds and other gemstones, jewelry and bangles, shoes, sporting goods, clothing, fireworks, rope, rugs and carpets, rice, bricks, and on and on.” Bales, Ending Slavery.

  8. What Can We Do? Brainstorm ideas

  9. Things You Can Do • Join the anti-slavery movement – help create pressure for change. • catalystonline.org.au • donttradelives.com.au • Change your shopping habits • Buy fairtrade products where possible • Buy from companies that are addressing supply chain issues • Let your voice be heard • Government • Companies • Give to aid agencies - reduce vulnerability to slavery by helping people out of poverty

  10. The Bales Plan To End Slavery • Create a global movement of people who are aware of slavery, demand action, and support frontline slave liberation and rehabilitation groups. • All governments to make and implement effective plans to prevent slavery, prosecute traffickers and protect victims. • Harness the power of international bodies, especially the UN. • Appoint a Special Representative on Slavery • Extend the UN inspections mandate to slavery • Identify slavery in the global product chain and work with industry to eliminate it from the supply chain • Reduce the vulnerability of people to slavery by ending poverty.

  11. Closing Reflection Activity

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