breaking the Chains. Eliminating slavery, ending poverty
- Document number
- 1888
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- breaking the Chains. Eliminating slavery, ending poverty
- Author/publisher
- Department for International Development (DFID)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Media/News,
- Keywords
- Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation;
- Summary
- Slavery, whatever shape it takes, is almost always a sign of a deeper underlying problem – poverty. Poverty makes people an easy target for exploitation and traps families in slave-like conditions – often from one generation to the next. Poor people end up in conditions of slavery because they do not have the economic opportunities – such as jobs or land to farm – that will enable them to earn a decent living and support their families. Without an education, their chances of developing the skills they need for better jobs are severely limited – and this traps people in traditional patterns of exploitation.
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