The modern definition of slavery has been expanded by conventions signed by almost all countries in the world to include trafficking in women and bonded labor. But still, slavery is not dead. In a California garment sweatshop in 1995, Thai workers were found confined to a compound behind razor wire. Contemporary slavery is not always easy to identify or root out because much of it is accepted within a culture.
Debt bondage is practiced in many parts of the world, particularly in South Asia.
In India and Nepal it is supported by a caste system that makes subjugation socially acceptable. Now , an international women's rights organization, said real slavery exists in the Sudan, a contention supported by the United Nations and independent human rights investigators. Islamic tribes in southern Sudan regularly raid villages of non-Muslim animists and take away captives who must work for them as unpaid labor unless they are bought back by their clans. Race is not the issue. In Asia, a well-organized begging industry mutilates Indian children and transports them to Saudi Arabia to plead for money outside mosques.