Used Book – SLAVES: 200 MILLION SLAVES TODAY, TORRES DOMINIQUE

This book summarizes several years of solitary investigation into a subject that remained taboo for a long time: modern slavery worldwide. The author, a senior reporter for France 2, specializing in difficult, even dangerous subjects (several films shot in secret), conducted her investigation in Morocco, Kuwait, Mauritania, Sierra Leone... but also in Europe (France, Switzerland, Great Britain). And what she reveals with great courage, with supporting figures, is astounding: two hundred million slaves in the world today, and a "trade" in full expansion in more than fifty countries - with the tacit complicity of so-called civilized nations (including our own). The stories Dominique Torrès recounts here - that of Rabbha, the Moroccan "little maid," that of Babou, the martyred cook, that of Lorna, the Filipino servant in Cairo accused of stabbing her mistress who had been torturing her for months, that of Adama and Hawa, the two African girls sold by their family to wealthy Lebanese... and many others - are not isolated cases. The horror they reveal is becoming commonplace, as it stems from the thousand and one pockets of misery in the vast world - and it involves all the exploitation circuits of this misery. For the slavery discussed here is not a vestige, but a perfectly organized modern industry, operating in the age of fax and computer. With means of coercion even more terrible than in Uncle Tom's time.

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