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Although slavery was abolished long ago, some forms of it are still practiced today in the form of child labor and sexual abuse. In order to help themselves and their families survive, women and children are sold either into labor or into the commercial sex industry in areas such as prostitution or pornography. The enslavement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore it comes as no surprise that most of the major corporations that were founded by Western European and American merchants prior to roughly 100 years ago, benefited directly from slavery.Many countries are still continuing to complete these horrendous actions of slavery. Also, there are companies that require their workers to complete actions in the field. For example, the workers at Toy’s R Us, pick cotton in a cotton field in order to provide the cotton for the stuffed animals and toys.
To begin with, In Nepal, many of their citizens are forced to work. For example, many of the women are forced to be prostitutes and have sex with others for money. Many of these girls, go into this type of work because of social inequality and/or they are compelled by economic deception. In Nepal, high-level decision makers, lawmakers and politicians at the local level are often accused of being the protector of the traffickers. Many commentators blame the lack of legal enforcement arguing that policies are sound in Nepal but not their implementation and that political commitment is required to implement public policies. Also, if a slave is being held captive as a sex slave, they would not be released if it were up to the law enforcers. Secondly, an abundance of companies also have innocent people working for them without consent and hardly get paid anything in return. For example, the company “Tiffany & CO” was

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