{"id":24292,"date":"2019-02-25T13:36:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24292"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:36:38","slug":"not-only-does-slavery-still-exist-but-more-people-are-enslaved-than-any-other-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24292","title":{"rendered":"Not only does slavery still exist, but more people are enslaved than any other time in history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The word \u201cslavery\u201d conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships \u2013 depictions that seem relegated firmly to the past. But more people are enslaved today than at any other time in history. Experts have calculated that roughly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/jul\/31\/human-life-is-more-expendable-why-slavery-has-never-made-more-money\">13&nbsp;million people were captured and sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th centuries<\/a>; today, an estimated 40.3 million people \u2013 more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade \u2013 are living in some form of modern slavery,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalslaveryindex.org\/2018\/findings\/global-findings\/\">according to the latest figures<\/a>&nbsp;published by the UN\u2019s International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the shocking opening of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/feb\/25\/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200\">briefing on modern slavery<\/a> published today by the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The word \u201cslavery\u201d conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships \u2013 depictions that seem relegated firmly to the past. But more people are enslaved today than at any other time in history. Experts have calculated that roughly&nbsp;13&nbsp;million people were captured and sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th centuries; today, an estimated 40.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24294,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}