[Imc-uk-features] draft slavery features as propsed

[Genny]

Hi

This looks good - just a couple of typos (see below).

Genny

Ben wrote:
> On the run up to the anniversary of the abolition of legal slavery in 
> Britain, Tony Blair took the opportunity to say sorry. "we condemn its 
> existence utterly... express our deep sorrow that it ever happened, that 
> it ever could have happened and to rejoice at the different and better 
> times we live in today." But

what... or how much...?

worth is such an apology when slavery is
> clearly not a thing of the past and the UK's role in slavery is far from 
> over. 

Question mark instead of full stop here?

Only a couple of weeks before Mr Blair attempted to consign the
> issue of slave trade to history, the Vatican was saying that slavery was 
> worse than ever. Hundreds of thousands of people are victims of human 
> trafficking every year - women and children forced to work as 
> prostitutes, others forced into labour and warfare.
> 
> "This trafficking in human beings has intensified, persons put into 
> slavery because they depend on certain criminals who take possession of 
> these human beings," said Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Holy 
> See's office concerned with migrants and itinerant people and a former 
> Vatican envoy to the United Nations.
> 
> While the large numbers suffer cruel servitude in the developing world, 
> trafficking to industrial countries such as Britain is on the increase. 
> Young women lured from impoverished [easten]

eastern

block countries with promises
> of jobs end up being sold to gangs controlling prostitution rings in the 
> western capitals. The average price for a slave is apparently $12,500 - 
> far less, relatively speaking, than what African slaves once fetched in 
> the United States.
> 
> At least 600,000 to 800,000 people each year are deceived and coerced  
> into some form of labour bondage - over double the number Britain was 
> transporting from Africa to the Americas at the beginning of the 19th 
> century. Additionally, many millions are held as forced labourers within 
> their home countries. In Eritrea, the military regime forces 
> conscription totaling 10% of the population, creating a massive pool of 
> forced labour. (Links http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358111.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358021.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357956.html)
> 
> The International Labour Organisation puts the total number of people 
> enduring some form of forced servitude at any one time at over 12 
> million, and even this very conservative estimate dwarfs the 10 million 
> to 28 million victims of 350 years of the African slave trade. Slavery 
> thrives under our civilised noses with migrant workers forced to take 
> the lowest wages and appalling conditions or face destitution or 
> deportation. Modern slavery is the backbone of globalisation, a system 
> that officially worships freedom. While capital and products move freely 
> around the world, national borders provide barriers to the free movement 
> of people and facilitate exploitation of the people on either side of 
> those borders for the sake of corporate profit and political power.
> 
> 
> newswire links
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358174.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2006/09/350880.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357977.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357683.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357897.html
> 
> prison labour 
> http://www2.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2005/03/307319.html
> 
> links to related articles elsewhere
> http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061210/focus/focus4.html
> http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=434
> http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/news/details.aspx?i=2338&c=slavery&h=Global+African+resistance+movement+attacks+Blair+slavery+apology 
> 
> http://bashy.dk/uk/foredrag/slavery.htm
> 
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