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Slavery was abolished, but

When was slavery abolished, made illegal?
Sweden / Finland: 1335
Portugal: 1761
Haiti: 1791
Upper Canada: 1793
France (first time): 1794–1802
Argentina: 1813
Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia,
Panama, and Venezuela): 1821
Chile: 1823
Mexico: 1829
Mauritius: 1835
Denmark: 1848
France: 1848
(including all colonies)
Peru: 1851
Romania: 1855
Netherlands: 1863
United States: 1865
Puerto Rico: 1873
Cuba: 1880
Brazil: 1888
Korea: 1894
Zanzibar: 1897
China: 1910
Burma: 1929
Ethiopia: 1936
Tibet: 1959
Saudi Arabia: 1962
Mauritania: July 1980Today – 2009 – slave trade and slavery are illegal.
BUT ...
Today - 2009 – an estimated 27 million people are held in slavery.
Today the main battle is not a legal one – slavery is already illegal.A major root cause to today"s slavery – human trafficking – is unemployment:
- It makes people vulnerable for traffickers.
- It creates high risk areas for trafficking.
Thus business entrepreneurs hold some strategic keys to prevention of human trafficking.PS. Just returned to Stockholm after a four day conference in Barcelona. Off to London tomorrow morning for meetings on the mission of business and human trafficking.

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