Slavery in the Modern World: Assessing Damage, Urging Action
Slavery in the Modern World: Assessing Damage, Urging Action

Summary/Abstract: There are more slaves în the world today than at any point în the history. Slavery exists today despite the fact that it is banned în most of the countries and outlawed by largely ratified international conventions. Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, sex and race. A better understanding of the forms of modern slavery and the scale it reached is enabling us to realize that modern slavery equate with gross violations of human rights, and that the international community has to react and mobilize resources to stop the perpetuation of such a degrading phenomenon for the entire global society. The article argues that the modern slavery forms have passed the ‘ordinary’, national type of crime and became an international crime through the serious human rights violations it entails and the scale it internationally reached. Therefore, international mechanisms of punishment have to be applied în order to stop the modern slavery perpetuation and its disastrous effects on the national and international society.

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