TEDtalk on slavery

How to combat modern slavery…. Ted talks Kevin Bales:

Key words: slavery, economic, destitute, vulnerable, commodity, liberation, economic autonomy, Sustainable freedom, heredity slavery

Listen to the talk and answer the following questions: 1.    What made this man sit up and listen about modern day slavery? When he saw that in a leaflet, there were millions of slaves in the world and he was very surprised he did not know that, when he did a press piece with the key word slavery, 2998 of them were about historical slavery, while 2 of them were of modern day slavery, but they had no solid information, so he decided to find out more 2.   What are ‘slave based businesses’? What are the benefits? Slave based businesses are businesses that use slaves for it’s own personal gains. Slavery’s benefits is that you can keep most of the profits to yourself, as the slaves will receive very little or no benefits. Also, you can increase your businesses output, as the slaves work 24/7 3.   What are modern day slaves? People who are forced to work with no pay, 24/7 under the threat of violence. 4.   Where is modern day slavery happening? It is happening it almost every country on earth, excluding Iceland and Greenland 5.   How many people were there in slavery during 2010? 27 million slaves 6.   What are some of the reasons behind modern day slavery? Firstly, it is because of the population boom, also it is caused by factors such as corrupt governments, civil wars, natural disasters, poverty etc. Finally, in some countries there is no law regarding slaves, so slave drivers can treat them however they like 7.   What is the average price of a slave today? 90 dollars 8. Where are slaves: More expensive?           Less expensive?           Why do you think this? Slaves are more expensive in the European regions with in the African and Asian region they are much cheaper. This is because European slaves are most likely to be more physically fit than African and Asian slaves 9.How can we combat modern day slavery? We can raise funds to liberate them 10. What is liberation? . It's about helping people to build lives of dignity, stability, economic autonomy, citizenship. 11. How much does it cost to free slavery? It’s estimated cost is around 10.8 billion dollars Are you willing to live in a world with slavery? Why/Why not? No I am not willing to live in a world with slaves, I believe that everyone has equal right, no race or religion is better than the other. Human ignorance and pride has caused the slave trade. If w all can live as equals, this problem we not have happened

Summarise the key points… A slave is someone who is forced to work 24.7 with no or little pay under the threat of violence Almost every country on the globe, excluding Greenland and Iceland have more than 500,000 reported slaves. The reasons slaves exist now are because of four main reasons, the population boom, the occurrences of events such as civil wars, natural disasters etc. that makes people feel vulnerable and weak, corrupt governments and there is no rule of law protecting slaves. The reason people become slaves is because either someone offers them a job but turns out there were enslaving them or it because they are a victim of heditary slavery. To stop slavery, they cannot just buy them from the slaveholder as that would be pointless and they may return to slavery again. To properly free slaves they must perform liberation, which is not to buy the slaves and to give them services like education, healthcare etc. to prevent them from becoming slaves again The global estimated cost of free all the slaves it approximately 10.8 billion dollars, on a global scale, that amount is minute.

How reliable is this information? (Source reliability) ·      Who wrote this article? Kevin Bales, a speaker for TEDtalks ·      Who is their audience? Anyone who is interested or willing enough to understand the slave problem today and learn how to solve it ·      Is this a reliable source?  Why or why not? Yes, as this man trying to prevent slavery and he has gather facts from people and places all around the world, he would obviously need to double or triple check before presenting his facts to the public.