Homework No. 5

 

The new forms of Slavery 

The slavery was a famous system from 16^th to the 19^th centuries, under which people are treated like a goods, the slaves was a property to be bought and sold and forced to work. In Colombia for example, the slavery was abolished since 1851, 161 years ago.  Apparently, the slavery was eliminated in all the countries, but this system exists and has new forms to use the people like an object.

One of the most dangerous slavery´s forms is the human trafficking, and is famous in a lot of countries; one of this is the kingdom of Cambodia. This business used predominantly a lot of child, and tourists around the world have visited this place for raped little girls and boys.  In Cambodia the 35% percent of the prostitutes are under the age of 18 years, and 40%-50% percent are HIV positive.

In Colombia, there are a lot of amazing cities, and our country has been visited for make business, know other culture or simply have a good time on vacation, sadly, cities like Medellin or Cartagena are famous for the child prostitution, and also exist the business of the human trafficking.

For example, in Cartagena, one of the most important city of Colombia, this situation is popular too, but doesn´t exist official statistics; the child prostitution is less famous than in Cambodia, but tourists of all the world has been paid for have sex with kids.   In this city a trafficker sells a young girl for $40.000- $100.000 and she only receive $20.000 per costumer.  

In Cambodia, this situation is most aggressive, because the tourist buys preferably virgins girls; the non- virgins girls are considerate less beautiful, and they are sold from US$150- US$170. Some of these girls are very young, and they have to work since 5 years old.

When the USA Soldiers have been in Cambodia, the number of prostitutes has risen to an estimated of 20.000 persons in this situation.  Evidently, in Cartagena this problem is not as big as Cambodia, but we have to study the situation and make a real diagnostic about the human trafficking in all the country.   

For other side, the human trafficking is not the only kind of slavery; in Brazil there are people working in mines or big plantations in non-human conditions, today there are 40.000.000 of persons sleeping in the floor, and eat only one time in all the day, and they only receive the food as pay for their work.

The strategy is simple, the trafficker visits a poor and little town, and paid to the family some money for the moderns’ slaves, when the people arrive to the mines or plantation, they have to work for pay the transport and the food that the boss has expensed.

These kinds of slavery is very common in our days, and this happen because the people don´t know the laws, maybe, the victims have never been in a school and living in a poverty situation, the solution is not clear, but the government has the obligation to study the situation and design a public politic for control this crime.