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Modern slavery and Corruption

Modern day slavery is the acute exploitation of other people for personal or commercial gain. Modern slavery is around us but just out of our sight. From outside, the jobs people are doing look like a normal one. But they are controlled by threats of being their jobs taken away, pushing them into inescapable debt traps and the likewise simply because they are in search of opportunities to save the lives of their families from poverty To achieve this, most fall into oppressive traps.and end up in modern slavery.  Following are the main common forms of slavery -  1. Human Trafficking 2. Bonded labour/ Debt bondage. 3. Slavery of children. 4. Forced labour/early marriage 5.  Traditional way of slavery where people are treated as property and their 'slave' status passed down the family line. Slavery and like forms of exploitation are facilitated and thrive by rampant use of corruption. Whatever the Govt, make laws/ rules and regulations and related controlling measues, unless and u