Hundreds live as slaves in NZ

Friday, November 21st, 2014

New Zealand has an estimated 600 people living in some sort of slavery, according to a report by campaign group Walk Free Foundation.

The anti-slavery foundation released its Global Slavery Index which said nearly 36 million people are enslaved worldwide, two-thirds of them in the Asia Pacific region.

The report defined slaves as people subject to forced labour, debt bondage, sexual exploitation, and forced marriage. Continue reading

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