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Modern-day slavery in Liberia | Pambazuka News
Robtel Pailey investigates modern-day slavery in the "land of the free". In the early 1820’s, Liberia transformed into a land of exile for repatriated American slaves. In fact, the country was a proverbial refuge from the dehumanizing, deplorable conditions of chattel slavery in the United States.
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Slavery ain’t dead, it’s manufactured in Liberia’s rubber
England celebrates its 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, plantation workers in Liberia are trapped in a time warp of monumental proportions. They exist in the parallel universe of multinational corporate checkmate, where the prize goes to the highest exploiter.
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Breaking the silence on modern-day slavery | Pambazuka News
Tina Okpara’s memoir, now translated into English, talks about her five-year journey from a loving yet poor childhood in Nigeria to the ordeal of modern day slavery in wealthy, suburban Paris. She was only 13 when celebrity footballer, Godwin Okpara and his wife Linda, lured her father into giving her up for a supposedly better life in Europe.
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Modern slavery of Ethiopian women | Pambazuka News
Bilene Seyoum raises critical points concerning the safety of Ethiopian domestic workers in the Middle East, suggesting that governments in the region could be institutionalizing a form of modern day slavery.
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Modern Slavery in Liberia - The Patriotic Vanguard
Robtel Pailey investigates modern-day slavery in the "land of the free". In the early 1820’s, Liberia transformed into a land of exile for repatriated American slaves. In fact, the country was a proverbial refuge from the dehumanizing, deplorable conditions of chattel slavery in the United States.
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Africa: Pambazuka News 240: Globalisation, Trade
Robtel Pailey investigates modern-day slavery in the "land of the free". In the early 1820's, Liberia transformed into a land of exile for repatriated American slaves.
Send InquiryThe Rise of a ‘New Slavery’? Understanding African unfree
This article analyses the widely reported increase of unfree labour in Africa through neoliberalism, arguing that, far from an individual relationship of domination epiphenomenal to global political-economic restructuring, unfree labour must be understood as a social relationship of insecurity and exploitation whose acceleration in recent decades is traceable to broader shifts in the relations ...
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Slavery ain’t dead, it’s manufactured in Liberia’s rubber
While England celebrates its 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, plantation workers in Liberia are trapped in a time warp of (...) While England celebrates its 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, plantation workers in Liberia are trapped in a time warp of monumental proportions.
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Pambazuka News | Analysis and Debates for Freedom and Justice
This week, the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will again be held in Washington, DC, with back-slapping now that the Bretton Woods twins have reached age 75 (they were founded at a New Hampshire hotel in 1944).
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Liberia: Firestone Challenge Advances
Firestone Rubber & Latex Company: Prospering from Child Labor and Enslavement in Liberia. Back in 1926, Firestone paid its workers 24 cents a day, an amount equal to roughly $9.19 a day in 2004. This rate is calculated on the basis of the unskilled wage rate of comparison. Today, in 2007, tappers earn $3.19 a day,...
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Modern-day slavery in Liberia | Pambazuka News
Modern-day slavery in Liberia. Robtel Neajai Pailey.Ironically enough, a recent development suggests that Liberia itself has served as a breeding ground for modern day slavery disguised in the form of what some would call indentured servitude for the American corporation, Firestone.
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Pambazuka News | Analysis and Debates for Freedom and Justice
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Modern slavery of Ethiopian women | Pambazuka News
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Slavery ain’t dead, it’s manufactured in | Pambazuka News
No, Emmanuel is a modern slave in 21st century post-conflict Liberia, and Firestone Rubber Company his unyielding master. Like many workers onI decided to take a break from high browed academic work, and visit the sprawling modern day encampment I had heard so many horror stories about.
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'Modern-day slavery' in Qatar: there's bad and good news
Nicholas McGeehan: Migrant worker abuse is widespread in Qatar – but the 2022 World Cup organisers seem to be taking the issue seriously. Will the new emir do the same?
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Opinion | Modern-Day Slavery - The New York Times
Editorial on difficulty of curbing modern variations of slavery; says developed world needs to realize that slavery exists and that its victims may help produce goods we buy; says it is important that people in nations where it is widespread see slavery as human rightsModern-Day Slavery. Sept. 9, 2000.
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Pambazuka News is an open access, Pan-African e-mail and online electronic newsletter. It is published weekly in English, Portuguese and French by Fahamu. The word Pambazuka means 'dawn' or 'arise' in Kiswahili.
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Modern Day Slavery In Libya Exposed
“Almost anything can be produced with modern slavery today," Foley explained.“We’re part of this wider world, what happens in places like Africa comes back here, that the systems of slavery, the systems of forces exploitations that we see in the United States have linkages back to other parts of
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Modern Day exists to build bridges between those who are called to go into all the world and those who are called to send them.“Modern Day is doing a wonderful work as they focus on facilitating and funding of missionaries from many organizations and churches.
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