Disposable People: Pakistan, Part 3

Melissa     Books & Resources, Trafficking News & Information     0

More from Disposable People by Kevin Bales. A Flawed System Become Slavery It’s easy to see how this system can be abused by landowners to create the condition of slavery. Bales estimates that up to 30% of kiln owners cheat their workers and 10% seriously abuse them. That means about 75,000 people are held in debt slavery. Because nearly all of the indebted workers are uneducated, it’s easy for them to fall pray to dishonest bookkeeping. This creates endlessly insurmountable debt. Landowners and foremen can also resort to violence and intimidation to keep workers from leaving. Many brick kilns haveRead more

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Disposable People: Pakistan, Part 2

Melissa     Books & Resources, Trafficking News & Information     0

More from Disposable People by Kevin Bales. A Culture of Division “It is a feudal land overlaid with the thinnest veneer of twentieth-century capitalism.” Society is set up with fierce loyalties that create divisions that breed conflict. People are bound first by blood ties to their immediate and extended family, then by their caste status. Although caste restrictions are no longer directly enforced (lower castes are not directly prohibited from certain jobs), they are so engrained in the culture that it’s nearly impossible to for lower castes to rise in status. The lowest castes, and therefore the worst jobs, belongRead more

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Updated Resources

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Check out the resource page for a newly updated list of places to find out more about human trafficking. The more educated we are about the problem, the better equipped we’ll be to work together to find a solution. Take a small step toward big change: Pick up a book, watch a film, or peruse a website.

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Disposable People: Pakistan, Part 1

Melissa     Books & Resources, Trafficking News & Information     0

Here’s more from Disposable People by Kevin Bales. This section was about Pakistan. I’m going to post it in several sections over the next few days. At the end, there will be specific things to pray for about human trafficking in Pakistan. Slavery in Pakistan Debt bondage and slavery are prevalent in Pakistan. One particularly vulnerable industry is brickmaking. Mud bricks are widely used in buildings, roads, and sidewalks. To produce them whole families work long days, digging dirt, hauling water, and mixing and forming bricks to be baked in hot, giant kilns. Because of their poverty these families areRead more