Any law that's unenforceable, is hardly worth the parchment it's written on! Be it prostitution, abortion or the alleged and never ever ending war on drugs, or the supply of illicit firearms.

Laws are like locks, only keep honest ethical folk out or compliant!

And enforcement mostly reactive!

As long as there's poverty, for the greed is good, robber barons to exploit? Little change is possible!

One can almost guarantee these (butter would melt in their mouths) sub-humans will be out there front and centre, with their political lackeys ensuring no real change interrupts their particular business models!?

Or cultural practise, defended as if it was inviolate! By inherently evil bible quoting, exceedingly hypocritic, servants of Satan. i.e., greed is good and or, hedonistic, claimants of personal power (ownership) over others!?

Sexual gratification secondary in any consideration than the money that can be extracted via its sale!

That said, none of the above would be possible save the market and or a permissive, dismissive market or fiercely defended, alleged cultural practice and or sovereignty, i.e., BS writ super large and brainwashed into its intended victims (property) devotees and soldiers.
Alan B.

Tell the 167 countries you claim slavery exists in. Tell the people preaching cultural relativism. All of these countries have had more than enough chances to mend their ways and follow the example of the West. But, no, they rubbish the West; hate the West, encouraged by self-haters in the West. Slavery is not our problem.

Andrea Tokaji

Two questions.

1. If person A threatens person B with being caged, shot, bashed, raped, or stabbed - so as to take the benefit of B's labour, without B's consent - would you include that in your definition of slavery?

2. What if A tried to justify their actions like so:
B: "That's slavery."
A. "No it isn't."
B. "Why not?"
A. "Because I exclude myself from the definition of slavery."

You would accept that as successfully exempting that slavery from the definition of slavery, would you?

Slavery is very much part of the culture in many Islamic countries.

I don't see anything wrong with using convicted criminals as slaves, and if that goes against this amorphous ideal of "human rights", then stuff human rights.

Human Rights was originally the brainchild of Virginia slave owners, who apparently did not think that black African people were human anyway. Human rights may be considered good guiding principles, but not some sort of carved in stone absolute. That human rights are not absolute is proven by the fact that the human rights advocates decided among themselves that "indigenous" people needed more rights than humans. Thus we have the "Indigenous Human Rights" which just goes to show that some people are more equal than others.

Andrea Tojaki is a card carrying employee of the human rights industry, and I will bet that it is a nice little earner. London to a brick that it was the good old Aussie taxpayer who paid for her Sydney Anti Slavery works outing conference. How much is this nonsense costing us? No wonder we were $800 billion in dept before Scomo and the Libs got their hands back on the economy. What's the bet that Andrea votes Labor?

Slavery in Australia was non existent before Gough Whitlam and his socialist mates repealed the White Australia Policy, without bothering to ask the electorate if we wanted it or not. Since then, Australian has imported millions of third world people into our country and we wonder why we are seeing crimes in Australia we have never had before. In the case of imported slave prostitutes, Australia gets it in the neck both ways. First we bust the slave brothel owners and then we have to give asylum to the prostitutes. Then we have to wonder if the prostitutes see this as a win-win situation. Work in Australia as prostitutes and then demand asylum when they get caught.

Then, as if we don't have enough problems to deal with, Andrea wants us to police the business dealings of overseas multinational organisations using what she considers "slaves" in other countries. Human Rights is just make work for overpaid busybodies like Andrea.