Slavery Today Trivia Quiz

Answer: National Geographic

The September 2003 "National Geographic" had a huge pictorial story based on this sensitive issue. Many of the facts and statements in this quiz are based on that publication.

Answer: 27 million

The "National Geographic" says that slavery is different in form from the slavery of, for example, 200 hundred years ago. What makes a slave today is someone "working hard for lousy money [on an involuntary basis, other than as a punishment imposed by a court of law]". 27 million people worldwide are estimated to be bought, sold, held against their will, badly brutalised and heavily exploited for money.

Answer: Milorad Milakovic

Milakovic was a name familar to Bosnians as their countries prime trafficker of slaves. He had numerous brothels spread across Europe and dealt in lucrative business ventures which employed women from all over the poorer regions of Eastern Europe. Milakovic was quoted stating "Is it a crime to sell women? They sell footballers, don't they ?" by a female activist for human rights who had questioned his morals in buying women for his brotels in Prijedor, Bosnia.

He was later raided in the autumn of 2000 and has since been charged with trafficking in humans and possessing slaves.

Answer: none

Not one country on earth had slavery legalised. NOT ONE. However, according to the 2003 U.S Department of State report on Trafficking the following countries showed high levels of slave trade.

Albania, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritus, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arabs Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Answer: 35 US dollars

For a mere US $35.00 it is estimated that children aged from 9 years old to 14 are kept in cramped squalid conditons working for up to ten hours a day every day.

Answer: Moldova and Ukraine

Amazingly, every woman bought from overseas is worth US $4,000. This needs to be paid back with interest. The women that are readily available on the market tend to come from Moldova and the Ukraine, and Tel Aviv has a bustling trade in these nationals. On average it is estimated that each brothel in Israel has ten women from these nations and the turnover in profit passes the million dollar mark easily every year.

It is a worrying trend at present but traffickers posing as employment agents travel to the poorer areas of Europe and offer the women promises of good jobs.

The women arrive and are typically beaten, raped and terrorised into compliance.

Answer: India

Two thirds of the world's "building slaves" can be found in India. Families are offered loans to pay for funerals or medical care and then charge exorbitant amounts of interest. They are then forced as a family to labour for years and the debt is passed on to the next generation. Other nations with high levels of this kind of slavery include Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

Answer: U.S. vs Pipkins et al

The case took place in Atlanta Georgia and saw the fifteen defendants sentenced up to 40 years in total for forcing children into sex acts and prostitution and the children were subjected to serious torture if they were disobedient.

Answer: Enslaving Mexicans and sending them to Florida to fruit pick.

The three men were sentenced to their respective time in prison for running an illegal business in transporting Mexicans to Florida for picking fruit. Much of the sentence was handed down to the three for the brutal beatings of men who tried to help slaves escape.

Answer: 13 billion US dollars

13 billion dollars!
The world economy has profited on so many forms of slavery that many of the items you can buy over a shop counter has at some stage likely to have been produced with slave hands. In the Ivory Coast for instance it is reported that twelve thousand children are forced to pick cocoa beans to be imported for chocolate. Coffee, tea, tobacco, diamonds, fireworks, sugar cane and among others charcoal to make steel are produced it has been stated by slaves.

The US Department of State report on Slavery is the main source of all the facts stipulated in this case and the information has also been picked carefully from the September 2003 issue of "National Geographic".