GLOBAL 3000 | Betrayed and Persecuted

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Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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The slave trade still prospers. People are forced to work by threats,receive no pay and cannot escape their camps. According to UN data,12 million live in slave-like conditions worldwide,other estimates put the total as high as 200 million.Many are victims of people traffickers. Surrounded by poor neighbors,Thailand is one of the hubs of human trafficking. More than one and a half million Burmese work there. Most have left their country illegally and cannot return. Many were brought into the country by traffickers who earn huge sums from the slave trade.

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