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    humanity. Traffickers’ reason for committing human trafficking is because of poverty, war, and huge profit. Victims that survive can often suffer short or long-term effects that can impact the rest of their life. Human trafficking is the same as slavery and violates the right to every human being involved. In 2012, human trafficking was the world’s second largest criminal enterprise that was estimated to be 32 billion dollars.

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    Slavery is branched off of racism and religion, stated in the book " From my studies I have concluded that what had happened to me was about racism and religion- mainly about religion" (Bok, 2003: Pg. 232). The problems of slavery are that no one is equal, one individual is higher than another based off of race and religion. In this book Escape from Slavery, the "Dinka" people died and weren't treated equally to the Muslims. The Dinka people were unfairly beaten and killed just because they were

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    how these contributions have put Africa on its current trajectory. Initial European interest in Africa appeared humanitarian. Many of the imperial nations seemed interested in acting on behalf of Africa, on issues ranging from the prohibition of slavery to development and

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    guns, led by a man named Joseph Kony have been massacring and kidnapping civilians throughout Uganda. This conflict has since spread out of Uganda to the north and west into other regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and areas of southern Sudan. The conflict also affects other key areas of central Africa as Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army has killed thousands and displacing millions of Africa natives. Despite several attempts at meetings in addition to arrest warrants from the International

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    Suffering In Uganda

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    miserable conditions a generation of Acholi people were born and raised in criminal like conditions. Up until 2006 the LRA had shown no interest in peace negotiations. The first peace negotiations were named the Juba Peace Talks as they were held in Juba, Sudan. Sadly, it is believed that during the negotiations Kony ordered his troops to destroy villages and abduct children in the Democratic Republic Congo. In August, 2006, a Cessation of Hostilities agreement was signed by Uganda and the LRA. Kony sent

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    14. Some have argued that freedom is impossible for all while some remain enslaved. Identify a specific example of modern slavery (timeframe, country, and people affected) and discuss how this affects our assumptions of ubiquitous liberty. Freedom is a fundamental birth right, which empowers people to speak, and do as they please without confinement or physical constraint. Freedom is the act of allowing an individual to act independently and choose independently, regardless of outside forces impeding

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    Slavery: Its History and Famous Works What is slavery? Slavery is the demand of Africans Ameri-cans forceful work in the 1800’s. During this time period there were people that made an impact when slavery occurred such as Harriet Tubman leading people through the Underground Railroad. Even though slavery was popular with the United States, it was also found all around the world with differ-ences. Close to the end of slaves and slaveholders many anti-slavery abolitionists contributed to the stop of

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    Child Labour The focus of this investigation is Child labour and recently developing child labour especially in developing countries. Child labour is when someone has power over children and they use it to their advantage such as businesses, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. It is predicted that child labour happens where there is more people. There are a lot of different types of child labour such as: Agriculture, Carpet weaving, automobile workshop, mining, stone/ marble cutting

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    Who knew how powerful the 1960’s would be? You had the civil rights movement, Woodstock, Vietnam War, and an explosion in rock and roll, as well as soul? Exactly, and that’s just in America. In Africa, countries were gaining freedom and independence. By 1980 the British, French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch were being conquered and most of Africa had claimed independence as countries, all the while apartheid was still going on. Even with the riots between warring states, weren’t enough

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    Martin A., Slavery And Colonial Rule in French West Africa, 1998, Cambridge University Press The book bears importance in being one of the few studies about domestic slavery within the French West Africa. It contributes to the field of study, by elaborating on the importance of slavery in Senegal, Sudan and Guinea in Africa’s development. The period of the study lies from 1876 to 1922, wherein Klein ultimately shows the evolution of slavery. In the years prior to 1876, Klein argued that slavery had an

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