After reading the washingtonpost and other few articles about the modern slavery in World, I felt to share those information to you.
We think of slavery as a practice of the past, but the
practice of enslaving human beings as property still exists. There are 29.8
million people living as slaves right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition
of slavery. These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced
prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways
that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute
ownership. Walk Free investigated 162 countries and found slaves in every
single one. But the practice is far worse in some countries than others.
The map shows above shows most of the county in the world colored
according to the share of its population that is enslaved. The rate of slavery
is alarmingly high in Haiti, in Pakistan and in India, the world's second-most
populous country. The report says that effective government policies, rule of
law, political stability and development levels all make slavery less likely.
Then there are the worst-affected regions. Sub-Saharan
Africa is a swath of red, with many countries having roughly 0.7 percent of the
population enslaved -- or one in every 140 people. Slavery is also driven by
extreme poverty, high levels of corruption and toleration of child
"marriages" of young girls to adult men who pay their parents a
"dowry."
Two other bright red regions are Southeast Asia and Eastern
Europe. Both are blighted particularly by sex trafficking, a practice that
bears little resemblance to popular Western conceptions of prostitution. Women
and men are coerced into participating, often starting at a very young age, and
are completely reliant on their traffickers for not just their daily survival
but basic life choices; they have no say in where they go or what they do and
are physically prevented from leaving. International sex traffickers have long
targeted these two regions, whose women and men are prized for their skin tones
and appearance by Western patrons.
Here, to give you a different perspective of slavery's
scope, is a map of the world showing the number of slaves living in each
country:
India has half the world’s modern slaves
Sixty-six years after independence, India has the dubious
distinction of being home to half the number of modern day slaves in the world.
The first Global
Slavery Index has estimated that 13.3 to 14.7 million people live
like slaves in the country — roughly equal to the population of Kolkata.
India leads the world, followed by China, Pakistan, Nigeria,
Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and
Bangladesh. These 10 countries account for 76% of the world's modern slaves.
Rich – Poor Gap in India
India has always witnessed a wide gap between the rich and
the poor. This disparity has only increased over the years. The rich have
become richer and the poor, well, poorer.
Despite the proportion of the poor declining between 2004-05 and 2011-12, their gap with the
rich has risen for the first time in rural areas in about 35 years and to an all-time high in urban
areas.
The serious issue that India currently facing is skyrocketing
inflation. Congress led has been rolled by a serious of corruption scandals, a
faltering economy, and inflation. Though its size makes India a significant
force in world trade, the economy continues to operate far below its potential.
Major Scam in 2000s
So for the better tomorrows, we need a corruption free,
transparent Governance in India which should contribute the service to lower
class community to bring them up. Currently we have number schemas, subsidiaries
and allocations for the people who may really do not need it. So the
reservation system in the country must be restructured and need to focus on who
really need this. That reservation should
not be based on any religion or
cast; but should be based on their
living standard.
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