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Slavery still exists today
sgtdjones
2017-05-21 21:23:32
Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia.
In the eighteen years I spent living in the United Arab Emirates, I learned a lot about how people treat other people. Over nine million people live in the United Arab Emirates, ninety-two percent of them are expats and migrant workers. Most of the migrant laborers come from Pakistan, India, Philippines, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka. They work long hours and earn very little money in construction, garbage collection, and other menial jobs. The gap between the rich and the poor is huge. People from those states furnish cheap labor, and they face racism and discrimination.
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sgtdjones
2017-05-21 21:25:11
The working conditions are inhuman; the laborers are expected to work for hours in temperatures that reach up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. It was reported that between 2010 and 2012, seven hundred Indian workers died in Qatar due to these conditions.
The same conditions exist in Saudi Arabia. But they are not limited simply to working and living conditions. Female household servants from places like the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia are sexually abused and raped by their employers.
black
2017-05-21 21:55:43
In reply to sgtdjones
They also have to pay a handler fee to the people that arrange for them to work overseas and they are paid wages based on their country of origin. There are no set minimum wages in these countries by the Government for foreign workers.
Norm
2017-05-21 22:31:45
Last time I checked, there were 5 countries in the world where slavery was still legal. One of these was Niger. In Morocco the king is allowed to own slaves (and he does).
Serfdom, a lesser form of slavery, is still practiced widely - mostly in connection with debts. I read somewhere that, as late as the 1970's, something akin to serfdom was still practiced on the Guyana island of Wakenaam.
We humans, of all colors, are basically still savages.
cedaw
2017-05-23 13:40:10
My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
djdrastic
2017-05-23 15:01:15
In reply to cedaw
Jeez that was a tough and heartbreaking read.
Forwarding this to my Filipino best mate.
defeyeant
2017-05-23 15:02:50
In reply to sgtdjones
they transport the workers to and from the worksites in the back of container trucks. they used to be jam packed with workers and ya know the temperatures down there in the summer aint easy. Always reminded me of modern day slave ships when I saw them.
Kay
2017-05-23 15:05:43
In reply to djdrastic
Just finished it too. What a hard and heartbreaking read .... 
SirGarny
2017-05-23 16:19:23
In reply to sgtdjones
where there is great wealth, there exists a permanent underclass..
we haven't even touched the subject of mental slavery 
Norm
2017-05-23 21:46:28
Many illegal Caribbean immigrants live lives similar to Lola's.
