Human rights & Slavery 13/04/18

Human Rights

During this term, we learnt about slavery and human rights. We have done a lot of work on Iqbal, we learnt about his story and how him escaping has helped save many other people involved in bonded labour.

Because we looked at a specific case I feel that it helped me understand more. Learning about a specific person makes you really see it in a differently. You become more emotionally involved in a way. Instead of looking at percentages and just seeing the numbers and graphs you see a single young boy who was taken from his family and forced to work for a man who treated him as if he wasn't even human. Because of this, it is easier to understand just how cruel it was. When reading about an individual case you don't just see a number, you see a face and a name and a family.