Modern-Day Slavery Location: Libya
As recent as 2016, 1.130% of the Libyan population lived in slavery. Even worse, in 2017, the country shocked the entire world when CNN investigated, and they exposed ACTUAL slave auctions.
Grainy cell phone footage was released of two young men who were being sold for 400 US dollars each seemed like something out of a nightmarish movie and sparked global protests and outrage.
According to a statement by Time, many refugees and migrants risking their lives to reach Europe by sea get caught in this modern-day slavery location and are kept in “horrific” detention centers where they’re vulnerable to being raped, beaten, and sold as slave labor.
Shortly after CNN’s initial report, the country’s government announced they’d launched a formal investigation into the issue.
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Anybody who has a job and are having taxes withheld from working are slaves. Stop pretending it only happens to other countries or African Americans. It is all of us who work every day just to live paycheck to paycheck. While our government takes all it can and just leaving you enough to live day to day. Never being able to enjoy anything in life. I never been on vacation, and I am 54 years old and worked most of my life. Open your eyes.