Slavery is an emotive word invoking images of near-naked black people, chained neck to neck in a line, usually escorted by evil looking ‘Arabs’.

Modern ‘slavery’, according to Artificial Intelligence, involves around 50 million people. But they are not put to work in sugar plantations anymore.

AI defines modern ‘slavery’ as:

. Forced labour (no clues as to where that happens)
. Human trafficking
. Debt bondage
. Forced marriage
. Servitude
. Child labour

So, before the useless United Nations pontificates on ‘slavery’ it needs to define what modern ‘slavery’ is.

It seems to me that each of the AI examples are covered in civilised countries by laws that have nothing to do with slavery; in uncivilised countries, there is no hope for anyone; and the use of that word just turns people off as a relic from the past. A relic just like the UN itself.

It is estimated America owes African Americans $16 trillion in compensation to close the wealth gap created by slavery, up to $300 trillion for the action of slavery itself. Aboriginal Australia is owed a modest $1 trillion in compensation for slavery, murder and deprivation. If one includes land disposition the figure is more like $20 trillion!