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Is Slavery Ever-Going To End

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Is Slavery Ever Going to End? There are about 23,542,800 people enslaved in Asia Pacific alone, according to The Global Slavery Index (TGSI). In August 2015, Humans of New York (HONY) posted on their website and Facebook page a series of power images. HONY is blog based and it contains pictures, portraits, and stories of random people on New York streets. The series of pictures is featured in Lahore, Pakistan, taken in a brick kiln, of people surrounded with nothing but bricks. They portray the conditions people are in in Pakistan, of how they work to pay of debts that will never stop growing. They look and do nothing like construction workers, and anyone’s blood would boil just by reading their heartfelt experience. They all have family, …show more content…

They are abused by owners, making their living conditions even worse. The kilns owners can raise the debt as much as they like. This is humanly wrong and no one can fight against it alone, and that’s why somebody called out for help.
The picture series is about the woman named Syeda Ghulam Fatima. She is called Pakistan’s Harriet Tubman by her admirers, according to HONY, and have been fighting against bonded labor. She was shot and harmed in other ways due to her activism and The Humans of New York wants to bring her stories to the spotlight. The series has seven pictures, consists of her, three brick kiln workers, and their stories. The workers are surrounded by bricks, wearing old clothes, with looks of despair but sheer happiness. Maybe they know they have some hope beyond the red …show more content…

Fatima’s fight has only just begun. According to the New York Times, Fatima and her husband “lead Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF), an organization designed to educate Pakistan’s bonded laborers by providing advocacy, legal aid and rehabilitation for workers through Freedom Centers established in rural areas.” They have been fighting together to stop put an end to modern slavery, abuse, and violence toward women. The New York Times writer, Allison Maloney, also mentioned that the donation will be put into building a Freedom Center in Lahore to help the oppressed recover from the abuse. Fatima said “Pakistan faces a lot of challenges, and we want industry to thrive in Pakistan, but the laborers must be

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