Human Rights (1/2) Flashcards
What is slavery?
a type of forced labour in which a person is considered to be the legal property of another
What are 5 examples of modern slavery?
- human trafficking
- forced labour
- debt bondage
- forced or servile marriage
- exploitation of children
Why would victims of human trafficking/slavery be unable or unwilling to leave?
maybe because of threats + violence + coercion + abuse of power + deception
Slavery affects about how many people worldwide?
40 million
What three categories does modern slavery typically fall into?
1) forced labour
2) debt bondage
3) sexual slavery
What is forced labour?
work performed under the threat of penalty of harm (such as threat of hardship, detention, violence or even death to the worker or another person
What is debt bondage?
where a person is forced to repay a loan with labour instead of money
What is sexual slavery?
involves repeated violation of sexual abuse or forcing the victim to provide sexual services
What is an example of an Australian organisation that works against slavery + human trafficking?
Anti-Slavery Australia (research + advise + assist) trafficked and enslaved victims of modern slavery
What were human rights on slavery like in Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire?
slaves legally had no right or way to escape. Most of society were slaves and it was considered normal
What were human rights on slavery like in the 17th to 19th century?
slavery became more barbaric and racist, and specific populations and races were targeted in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Catholic Church allowed non-Christians to be enslaved, so the European Empire and colonies to trade slaves for products
What happened in 1776?
In the US, the US Declaration of Independence declared that “all men were created equal”
What happened in the UK in the 1807 and why?
the Slave Trade Act was introduced because of a change in societal values that began in the 18th century. it ended the importation of slaves into the British Empire
When and where did the Abolition Movement start to grow?
In England in the early 1800s.
