Humanity

Slavery and similar issues such as the trafficking of children, debt bondage, serfdom, children in armed conflict: Slavery  is where one person is owned by and made to work for another person without having any say over what happens to them. Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are not allowed to leave or to refuse to work. Child trafficking  is the illegal trading (buying, selling and movement) of children for labour or sexual exploitation. Children are trafficked for many reasons, including forced labour, prostitution and recruitment as child soldiers and beggars. Debt bondage  is forced labour, where work is exchanged to pay off loans that people cannot pay off with money or goods. For example, a poor family may hand over their child to someone to pay off their debt, and that child will have to work for years until the debt is cleared. Serfdom  is when a person is forced to live and work on land belonging to another pers