3.3 Modern Slavery and Servitude

• The difference between slavery and servitude
• Forms of slavery and servitude in the modern world
• Factors that cause modern slavery and servitude
• How governments and civil society collaborate to end them
• The role of abolitionist movements, past and present
• What a citizen can do

• discuss various forms of slavery and servitude in the modern world
• assess the factors that cause slavery and servitude in the modern world
• illustrate ways in which governments and civil society collaborate to end slavery and servitude in the society today
• elaborate the roles of abolitionist movements in the modern society
• appreciate the need to free the world from slavery and servitude

“What can you do to end slavery and servitude in the world?”

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1. Modern slavery and servitude: forms and causes
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   What slavery and servitude mean today, the forms they take, and what produces them.
2. Ending it: abolitionists, government, civil society and you
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   The abolition movements past and present, how governments and civil society work together, and what a learner can actually do.
3. Slavery and servitude: the difference
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   Ownership against inability to leave, why the label matters less than the test, and the one question to ask of any situation.
4. Forced labour and debt bondage
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   The commonest form of modern servitude, how a debt is designed never to clear, and why it looks lawful.
5. Human trafficking
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   Recruitment, movement and exploitation; why trafficking is mostly internal; and why consent at the start means nothing.
6. Child labour and domestic servitude
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   The line between acceptable work and child labour, and why servitude inside a home is the hardest form to see.
7. Forced marriage
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   Arranged against forced, why every child marriage is forced as a matter of law, and what to do about a threatened marriage.
8. Why modern slavery persists
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   Six factors that create vulnerability, why demand belongs on the list, and why no single cause explains it.
9. The law against slavery and servitude
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   International conventions, Article 30 of the Constitution, Kenyan statutes - and why the law is not the missing piece.
10. What a citizen can actually do
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    Notice, report, ask questions, support survivors - and why reporting when you are not certain is the right thing to do.