Products of Slavery

Source: http://www.productsofslavery.org (Click on the image to enlarge)

The above depiction comes from the Anti-Slavery International Foundation, which was founded in 1839. To this day, it serves as the world's oldest international human rights organization. Its mission is to educate people worldwide about modern day products that are produced using child labor. The map depicts the top 25 countries in which forced labor from both children and adults is used to produce goods that we consume worldwide. Each of the listed countries is assigned a number that corresponds to the number of products that are produced using these harsh measures. Hovering over each country displays the actual products that are produced in that country. What I particularly like about this map is that it forces us to ask questions about where products come from (especially those that we use regularly). Asking such questions is vital in changing economic and trading policies; if people refuse to purchase goods that are produced by means of human exploitation, then that may cause the demand for these goods to shift to other countries or regions, where they are produced more ethically. Additionally, I gained an interest in this map because it draws insight onto a modern form of slavery that is often overlooking.