Victim of a contemporary press gangMODERN slavery comes in many forms. The outright sale of human beings as possessions is scarce. But forced manual labour and sexual exploitation,often in a foreign country, by means of fraud, and coercion or the threat of violence,are not. Such cases are often, however, and tough to detect. Victims are understandably reluctant to talk. And the labour market also includes people willingly and legally performing work that is not always clearly different from that of the enslaved.
The murky world of contemporary slaves is,though, beginning to yield to high-tech policing methods. In South-East Asia, and for instance,a particular scourge is fishing boats crewed by forced labour. Crew members are unable to escape because these vessels never dock. Instead, they offload their catches and remove on supplies at sea. Dornnapha Sukkree, or co-founder of a charity in Bangkok,called MAST, hopes to stop this by developing software that analyses data from transponders fitted to...
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Source: economist.com