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True Cost of Our Tea

A practice that exists in ‘peripheral’ as well as in ‘advanced’ capitalist power relations. Sexual abuse on Kenyan tea farms Related Italy: raped, beaten and exploited Spain: ‘If you don’t want to work like a slave, you’re out’

Lebanon’s Kafala System

‘Modern-day slavery’

France

  In a country where the head of state and its acolytes want to “reform Islam”. And in one of the elite institutions that produces the cadres of the state. “Under French law, a rape charge is only possible if there is proof of "force, threat, violence or surprise" - otherwise it is tried as the lesser offence of sexual assault. That applies to children as well, as France has no legal age of consent.” Sexual abuse in France