This study has shown that more than ninety percent of Nike factory workers in Vietnam are women, usually from rural areas where they are not taught about their rights, most between the ages of fifteen and twenty-eight (Doan 4). ... Fifteen Vietnamese women were reportedly hit over the head by their supervisor for poor sewing, sending two to the hospital (48 Hours). ... In another Nike-operated factory, forty-five women were forced to kneel for twenty-five minutes with their hands in the air. ... One employee left after eighteen minutes, whereupon he was fired. ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1963 by Abraham Lincoln. Many enslaved Americans were thought to be freed. slavery still exist today all over the world. This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as "The recruitment, transpor...

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