“They made me a slave today.” Aneka Burton still remembers the way her then 10-year-old son, Nikko, who is black, recounted his experience to his grandfather after school one day. It was 2011. But Burton believes the classroom exercise in which Nikko’s classmates were encouraged to examine and pretend to bid on each other during […]
slavery
Slavery and the Western world
“There’s this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you’ve got a race if you’re black, or any kind of Asian, or any kind of Native American, but that you have no race if you are white” -Celeste Ng, an American born Chinese origin fiction writer Kofi Anan […]
Given away in marriage abroad
The Federal Investigation Agency is now holding at least 10 Chinese citizens and their local facilitators on suspicion of human trafficking for bonded labour, sex work, slavery and organ trade. The arrests have been made in Faisalabad and Lahore. Those familiar with the FIA investigation have said at least 90 Pakistani girls, mostly from income-poor […]