A 9 year old girl is sold for $ 50 as a slave

I can not see you in Japan first, but there are still "slaves" everywhere in the world, there are slave merchants and slavery system properly. On the contrary, in the history of mankind, it is said that the present time is actually the time when the number of the most slaves is the most.

EspeciallyHaitiIt is a very poor country, and a 9 - year - old girl is sold for $ 50 (about 4900 yen) as a slave.

Details are as below.
Non-profit independent news program broadcasted at more than 500 North American stations "Democracy Now!Site operated by "NPR (National Public Radio)"This was actually experienced by Mr. Benjamin Skinner, a writer, when I visited Haiti in the autumn of 2005,Donga.comSo this time it is written as follows.

"Please pay 100 dollars." "How about 50 dollars?"

"Okay .... By the way, are you going to do just the job, others (sexual act)"

"Can you do both?"

"Of course I am 13 years old, 12 years old, 11 years old are available, we can make a document to adopt to the United States."

According to the NPR article, it seems that in the 1850s slaves were made between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000 per person. As for how much it is worth 50 dollars to buy per slave in Haiti is "Haiti Foster Movement"According to the page of, it is as follows.

The per capita GNP is about 330 dollars (about 40,000 yen). It is an annual income of 1/100 of Japan. With little income like this, everything is perfect in everyday life, and most families have no money to use for education.

However, if there is about 10,000 yen in Japanese yen, one child in Haiti can receive education for one year. In Haiti, 10,000 yen in Japan has several times, several ten times the value.

In other words, $ 50 is said to have considerable monetary value in Haiti. However, according to the "Overseas Safety Homepage" operated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, "We recommend postponing traveling.It is quite dangerous because it is on the level of '50 dollars as a matter of fact.

In addition, paying money to release from slavery "RepurchaseEven if it returns to the parent or village, it is sold again as a slave, and money used for this repurchase is allocated for purchasing weapons such as civil war, and after all cause of slavery continues It is pointed out that the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) pointed out that the act of buying slavery is humanitarian, but it seems that it should be done.