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Hello, welcome at this new vlog of Belicons.
Nice that you are watching.
This week my blog and vlog are about modern slavery.
That sounds odd 'modern slavery', for slavery has been abolished a very long time ago.
So that belongs to the past.
Unfortunately, today there are even more slaves than about 150 years ago.
So slavery has been abolished in theory, but in practice it's not going well at all.
And I'm not sure what you are thinking, but I don't like the topic of slavery at all.
I didn't really like writing a blog about it and this vlog isn't the easiest either.
But still I'm doing it.
Why?
Because it is a very important subject and because it is still happening.
And because I think that we aren't powerless over against it and thus it makes sense to
talk about it.
Look at this, these are images of slavery of a few centuries ago.
People are being mistreated and killed.
What you see here is the best known form of slavery, people with a dark skin who are only
because of that treated as being inferior and thus it was okay to treat them in this way.
Nonsense of course, but that is the way people thought in that era.
But that is not all.
Take a look at these images.
Also many white people have been kept as slaves in the past.
For example when the Ottoman empire was doing very well, Christian women were sold and kept as slaves.
Furthermore, back in time, during the Roman empire, if one was rich, it was very normal to have slaves.
Back to this era.
At this moment a lot of slaves are being kept around the world.
Estimations are that we are talking about 46 million people, of whom most live in India.
This enumeration shows that slavery is present among all kind of people throughout history.
So even though we hear during history lessons about how European and American people took
people from Africa and make them slaves and treated them terribly.
And that this was abolished about 150 years ago.
That is all true, but unfortunately it's only a small part of the story.
For one thing, in some countries, slavery was forbidden only in the previous century.
So people didn't think about 150 years ago: "How foolish have we been, we stop this
practice at immediately!"
It took a long time to convince all governments that they should abolish slavery.
And since there is still so much slavery today, even though it is forbidden by law in all
countries now, it is safe to say that it somehow a part of being human.
We want to have power over others.
Fortunately, not all people are like this.
Compare this to greed.
Throughout history, we see that money is very important to human beings.
People don't just want to have enough, but they want: more, more, more.
In this case too, not all people are like this.
But we all know that greed somehow belongs to human nature.
I think that history shows that the same goes for slavery.
People want to have power and if one can do whatever one wants with another person, then
that is the ultimate form of power.
For that reason it can be expected that slavery still happens today.
Back to the comparison with money: rules aren't enough to withhold people from taking money
that doesn't belong to them, they need to be checked too.
In the same way, it isn't enough to forbid slavery, they need to check whether 'employees'
aren't slaves, but people whose rights are being respected.
And that is what is going wrong.
For we often have the idea that there is hardly any slavery any more.
But as I said in the beginning, since it was first abolished, it only got worse.
And this is not only happening in poor countries, also in European countries people are being
kept as slaves, mistreated, raped, etc.
Only, last week a woman was found who had worked as a slave in The Netherlands for three years.
This may seem to be a very negative story right now.
It happens, far away and close by.
But what can we do?
We are powerless over against this and thus we can better just ignore it, otherwise it
gives us a dismal feeling and that helps no one.
But no, we aren't powerless over against this at all.
First of all, we can support organizations like International Justice Mission who are
trying to free slaves.
And not without success.
Take a look at their website.
On that website they tell us about their success stories.
About how they rescued children who were sex slaves, how they saved nearly 600 slaves on
one day and more of those success stories.
And then you could think about all the millions of slaves who are still being imprisoned.
But each smiling child, each free man or woman is important.
Suppose you have been imprisoned as slave and you would be freed, then you would be
very, very, happy even though many others are still slaves.
So if you would support such an organization, financially or in other way, is already something very worthwhile.
Amnesty International create petitions regularly, also about people who are being kept against their will.
You can choose to sign them, sometimes they really achieve something with this.
Moreover, we can call our politicians to care and to something about this.
Many countries have agreed on ans signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
That means that they need to do whatever they can to make sure that human rights are being
respected in their own countries and in those of the other countries that signed it too.
We can call them to do that.
The more voices are being raised, the better.
In this way we aren't powerless at all over against this injustice.
And I think that it is very important, for how can we explain to the next generation
that the problem of slavery is only getting worse, even though it is forbidden by law
a long time ago.
These are my ideas.
Let me know what you think, on Belicons or on YouTube.
And don't forget to mention your arguments of course.
I'm really curious and I'll see you next week.
Bye!
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