Is there any Slavery in Sudan and Arab World???Yes or No !!!

in the Wikipedia means
The word slavery is used to describe a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labour of the person or people concerned. A specific form, chattel slavery, involved the legal ownership of a person or people, which is now illegal in all countries. When this article refers to people as "slaves" today, it is simply describing the conditions in which they are held, not the law.

In the strict sense, slaves are people who have no rights. Therefore serfdom does not usually mean slavery because serfs almost always have some rights and military conscription would be slavery in some militaries and not others. Similarly, in the broader sense of the word, slavery has sometimes been regarded as an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and/or other family relations, military service (see conscription, or debt relationships, for more details of the latter form, see debt slavery). However, people subject to these conditions may also have some rights and they are also covered by a more generic term: unfree labour, which includes all forms of slavery and similar labour systems. Unfree labour is now the preferred term of many scholars, because of the wide variety of meanings, usages and ambiguities which may be attached to words like "slavery".

The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised..." Therefore a slave is someone who cannot leave an owner, master, overseer, controller, or employer without explicit permission, and who will be returned if they stray or escape. They may be legally owned or controlled to the same extent informally. Control may be accomplished through official and/or tacit arrangements with local police and other authorities — by masters who have some influence with the authorities, because of their status as landowners and/or wealthy persons.

Slavery is in all countries considered to be a criminal activity, outlawed by UN conventions. However some states such as Myanmar and Sudan do facilitate the institution of slavery, according to anti-slavery groups such as Free the Slaves. In these cases, unfree labourers are often told that they are working off a debt, but to have no access to an accounting for that debt, and no right to take any higher-paying or less supervised employment. These people may be considered slaves if they are under the impression that challenging these conditions, or leaving in protest of them, would lead to serious bodily harm. Some labor conditions for imported "domestic" workers approach conditions of slavery in countries like Singapore, Canada, and Saudi Arabia, under the color of law, such as Canada's “Live-in Caregiver Program. [1] (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServe...ut/Article_Type1&;call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1099087810560). Numerous abuses are reported to the authorities which frequently turn a blind eye. Death of imported domestic workers in singapore during 2000-2004 are estimated to be about 100 people. The Singapore government has compounded their problems by putting a tax of up to 100% on the salary of these modern slaves. [2] (http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/001810.php)

In all countries, people in many occupations are contracted for a period of years, but they are usually paid on a regular basis, are rarely contracted until a debt is paid, and are rarely sold into that status by their parents or others.

Who becomes a slave?
Historically, slaves were often those of a different ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race — animal rights and Great Ape personhood advocates would also include species — from those who enslaved them, but in general such slaveries were short. It has been relatively rare in history for an entire ethnic group to be held as slaves for more than a couple of generations. In most cases intermarriage, granting of liberty, right to buy one's own freedom, have caused slave and slave-owning populations to merge all around the world.

Societies characterized by poverty, population pressures, and cultural and technological backwardness are frequently exporters of slaves to more developed nations. Today most slaves are rural people forced to move to cities, or purchased in rural areas and sold into slavery in cities. These moves take place due to loss of subsistence agriculture, thefts of land, and population increases.

Slavery is almost always a matter of economics - in effect, those with poor birthright or bad luck in any society have sometimes been forced to throw themselves on the mercy of those with better birthright and luck, or simply been forced to provide service to those who had power and were willing

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