Modern day slavery!
It was quite astonishing for me to read in the magazine “Bloomberg Markets” about the existence of inhuman slavery still today in this modern civilised world. It was an investigative story in Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru where people worked in timber, charcoal or gold mines without any wage and just for food. They work so hard and suffer from diseases like TB, malaria in Amazonian forests and in unhygienic gold mines in Peru that many of them embraced death at their early age. There is no authority to look into this matter. Even the countries which boast of humanity and are beneficiaries of these mines, especially the USA, are not aware of the situation. I think in our country the situation is better in that sense that people at least get some wag, but how much? Is this enough to feed him and his family properly and gain the energy to work? Even those garment workers who work dawn to dusk for the development of our country's economy don't get enough wage, they suffer from many diseases due to unhygienic conditions in the factories. Many accidents also occur like fire and building collapse and take lives of those innocent workers.
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