Debt bondage, domestic servitude and indentured labour still a problem in the world's richest nations

Monday, May 29, 2017 - 06:32 in Mathematics & Economics

Slavery has been illegal in every country since the last country to do so, Mauritania, criminalised the practice in 2007. But while slavery is illegal, it has not disappeared. Contemporary slavery in the form of indentured labour, debt bondage or domestic servitude still exists in many places – including the richest countries of the world.

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