{"id":1340,"date":"2011-11-23T05:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/23\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:59","slug":"slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/23\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery: A 21st Century Evil &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/710089459\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/710089459\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/cnjI0rV4oTWOvqpMbT6dxjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his investigation will expose the brutal reality of modern slavery and unpick the reasons why this age-old evil persists.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/slaverya21stcenturyevil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesToday, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/23\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/15\/assessing-progress-toward-a-21st-century-right-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":1340,"position":0},"title":"Assessing Progress Toward a 21st Century Right to Know | OMB Watch","author":"aslam","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesOn Nov. 12, 2008, the right-to-know community published a set of detailed transparency recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama and Congress. 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