Kevin Bales
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first heard Mar 2014
last heard Mar 2014
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The ILO, while they have very good methodologists, we're not able to see what their data happen to be, and they don't share all of the details of their methodology.
So we're not quite sure how that all goes together to make 21 million.
Predominantly there you have what's called collateral debt bondage slavery.
Let's say I'm the slaveholder and you come to me and say, my child is sick, I need to buy medicine.
I say, look, I will loan you the money.
But for collateral, you have to give me, yourself, your children, your family, and all of the work that you can do and its product until the loan is repaid.
Trafficking of young women and boys into commercial sexual exploitation in the cities.
Slavery in mining and glassmaking, especially in agriculture, in brick kilns.
Ten years ago, they talked about the very large number of Nigerian women who had been trafficked into enslavement, into sexual exploitation in Italy.
At the same time, because Nigeria is quite an economic powerhouse in the context of West Africa, people are tricked into searching for opportunities to better their lives, say from Mali, Burkina Faso, or other surrounding countries.
And those people are lured into situations of enslavement in Nigeria.
There now exists a number of random sample surveys, not a large number, about nine or 10 at most at the moment.
But those actually give us for the first time realistic estimations, which we believe are much closer to the truth on the ground.
What happens is that you don't show up at the door and say, excuse me, are you a slave?
You say, has anyone in your family been offered a job overseas?
and took up that offer only to find that the work was not what was promised, that they were not paid and they were not allowed to leave.
We would count that as an Ugandan citizen who has been enslaved.
You could.
And we do what we do.
can to look for that and are very cautious about that.
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