The UN’s International Labour Organisation estimates that 21 million people around the world are trapped in some form of modern slavery. I had to work all the time, without a day off, and I slept on the floor by her bed. There was a room that had a hole in the floor, and they pushed us into it and locked us in. I have four brothers and four sisters, and none of them went to school; my parents never went to school, either. Three months went by like this.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2017 08:02 UTC