SkepticJ said:
Those links you gave are about slavery that's illegal. Murder and rape are illegal, they happen though. You want to give some proof about official legal slavery(not hidden because it's criminal in said country) in a UN nation?
More research might lead to a different conclusion.
When a government condones slavery, that effectively makes it
legal, no matter what may be written on an unused statute. Legal, as in, the systems acts to make sure that victims have no legal recourse.
"Slavery has been a way of life in Mauritanian for many centuries "There are tens of thousands of Black slaves who remain the property of their master, subject entirely to his will, working long hours for no remuneration, with no access to education and no freedom to marry or to associate freely with other blacks." says Africa Watch. "They escape servitude not by exercising their "legal" rights, but mainly through escape."
For those who are skeptical and find this hard to believe, it is important to do the math. This slave trade predates the 1400's and continued until ". . .July 5, 1980, [when] the government of President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah passed a decree abolishing slavery for the third time in Mauritania's history" states Africa Watch. "
The abolition was essentially a public-relations exercise prompted by external considerations. It was never intended as a well thought out policy aimed at eradicating the age-old practice of slavery."...."
http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/demographics.html
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"Even in cold weather I had to wear thin dresses ... I was forced by the boss to serve international soldiers and police officers ... I have never had a chance of running away and leaving that miserable life, because I was observed every moment by a woman."
UNMIK's initial response in the period from 1999 to 2000 appears to have been to try to control prostitution - which is illegal in Kosovo - rather than addressing the issue of trafficking. This was done predominantly through raids by UNMIK Police and KFOR on premises where trafficked women were believed to work. UNMIK police also arrested women for immigration or documentation offences at borders and within Kosovo. However, the traffickers themselves were rarely targeted.
...Very few trafficked women in Kosovo are able to gain access to justice, including the right to seek redress through the criminal justice system. To date, no trafficked woman has been able to obtain reparations for the damage she has suffered as a result of abuses of their human rights."
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=1391B6E5EE9C8A9780256E7E0041EE72
"The bigger problem, as Rockwell acknowledged, is that the country has developed a reputation as the brothel of Europe, with cheap flights fueling sex tourism. Traffickers see a great business opportunity in the Czech Republic. And if prosecutors and judges do not start to take the issue seriously, the Czech Republic could become even more of a trafficker's heaven, Tier 1 rating or not."
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2004/Art/0624/opinpv.php
But enough derailing with unpleasant toopics...back to Jebus, by all means.
