Slavery in The 21st Century

Fisheries
The Environmental Justice Foundation found human rights violations in the fisheries on
the coasts of South and West Africa including labor exploitation. Exporter fish
companies drive smaller businesses and individuals to lower profits, causing
bankruptcy. In many cases, recruitment to these companies occurs by luring small
business owners and migrant workers through debt bondage. [34] In recruiting individual
fishers, fees are sometimes charged by a broker to use ports which opens the debt
cycle.
Domestic Labor
After countries began to formally abolish slavery, unemployment was rampant for blacks
in South Africa and Nigeria pushing black women to work as domestic workers.
Currently, estimates from the International Labor Organization state that between
800,000 and 1.1 million domestic workers are in South Africa. Many of these domestic
servants become bonded to labor in a process similar to other industries in Asia. The
wages given to servants are often so poor that loans are taken when servants are in
need of more money, making it impossible to escape. The hours of working for domestic
servants are unpredictable, and because many servants are women, their young
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