According to a report recently published by "Walk Free" a foundation funded by Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates, Pakistan is one of the countries with the most slaves on this planet. An estimated 4 million Pakistani are slaves, most of the times poor farmers working in servitude for wealthy land owners or bonded labourers struggling daily in brickyards. The downward spiral to slavery is almost always the same: bosses incite workers to borrow a sum of money from them, usually in case of a medical emergency or to pay a dowry. The interest rates are so ridiculously high that they end up working for nothing for years to come with almost no hope to escape. Our team of reporters in Pakistan's southern Sindh province to witness how wide-spread this problem actually is...
02/07/2014 FOCUS
An exclusive in-depth report from a FRANCE24 correspondent, followed by comment and analysis with the author and the anchor in the newsroom in Paris.
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