MORE slaves are alive today than were shipped out of Africa for the Atlantic slave trade during the last millennium, says Kevin Bales, an American academic on modern slavery.
The professor of sociology and author of several books on the topic said global conditions had produced a market for slaves which continued to boom, including in Australia...
In Australia, they were most likely to be minors or young women, imported from poor Asian nations, working in the sex industry or as household servants.
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August 8, 2008
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