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Slavery still widespread, UN panel reports
A UPI dispatch from Geneva states the United Nations Working Group on Slavery reports ongoing slavery in Latin America and Africa. It cites Paraguay’s Ache Indians selling children, forced labor in Equatorial Guinea, and peasants enslaved in Central America, with apartheid in South Africa and a 1901 Rhodesian Masters and Servants Act legalizing similar practices.
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