This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery.

These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership.

Chloe Ayling, 20, told reporters Sunday morning outside her mother's South London home that she didn't know during her week-long captivity whether she would survive to tell the story."I've been through a terrifying experience.

I've feared for my life, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour," she told the media, according to various U. newspaper accounts of her remarks."I'm incredibly grateful to the Italian and U. authorities for all they have done to secure my safe release.

A receipt for an Islamic State jihadi's purchase of a 20-year-old woman from another man has been circulating online and provides insight into how the terrorists sold women and girls in the now liberated city of Mosul. The document, which has been shared on social media, purports to be a purchase agreement between two men named Abu Zubair and Abu Monem. According to The Daily Mail, the "bill of sale" written in Arabic describes the woman by her physical features: "20 years old, physically fit with brown eyes." The Sun notes that Zubair was the man who sold the woman, while Monem was the one that purchased her.

news outlets have reported that a "bill of sale" for a young sex slave who was sold for approximately

This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery.These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership. Chloe Ayling, 20, told reporters Sunday morning outside her mother's South London home that she didn't know during her week-long captivity whether she would survive to tell the story."I've been through a terrifying experience.I've feared for my life, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour," she told the media, according to various U. newspaper accounts of her remarks."I'm incredibly grateful to the Italian and U. authorities for all they have done to secure my safe release.A receipt for an Islamic State jihadi's purchase of a 20-year-old woman from another man has been circulating online and provides insight into how the terrorists sold women and girls in the now liberated city of Mosul. The document, which has been shared on social media, purports to be a purchase agreement between two men named Abu Zubair and Abu Monem. According to The Daily Mail, the "bill of sale" written in Arabic describes the woman by her physical features: "20 years old, physically fit with brown eyes." The Sun notes that Zubair was the man who sold the woman, while Monem was the one that purchased her. news outlets have reported that a "bill of sale" for a young sex slave who was sold for approximately $1,500 has been discovered in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city that was formerly the jihadi death cult's largest stronghold in the country before the city was liberated by coalition forces earlier this month.The guide even included the prices for girls ages 1 through 9."The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol," United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Bangura, said in an interview with Bloomberg.

This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery.

These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership.

Chloe Ayling, 20, told reporters Sunday morning outside her mother's South London home that she didn't know during her week-long captivity whether she would survive to tell the story."I've been through a terrifying experience.

I've feared for my life, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour," she told the media, according to various U. newspaper accounts of her remarks."I'm incredibly grateful to the Italian and U. authorities for all they have done to secure my safe release.

A receipt for an Islamic State jihadi's purchase of a 20-year-old woman from another man has been circulating online and provides insight into how the terrorists sold women and girls in the now liberated city of Mosul. The document, which has been shared on social media, purports to be a purchase agreement between two men named Abu Zubair and Abu Monem. According to The Daily Mail, the "bill of sale" written in Arabic describes the woman by her physical features: "20 years old, physically fit with brown eyes." The Sun notes that Zubair was the man who sold the woman, while Monem was the one that purchased her.

news outlets have reported that a "bill of sale" for a young sex slave who was sold for approximately $1,500 has been discovered in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city that was formerly the jihadi death cult's largest stronghold in the country before the city was liberated by coalition forces earlier this month.

Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom." "Girls are literally being stripped naked and examined in slave bazaars," Bangura asserted during a press briefing.

We think of slavery as a practice of the past, an image from Roman colonies or 18th-century American plantations, but the practice of enslaving human beings as property still exists.

There are 29.8 million people living as slaves right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.

A statement from Milan police headquarters detailed her horrific experience, and announced the ."Attacked, drugged, handcuffed and closed inside a suitcase, that's how a 20-year-old English model was kidnapped on July 11 in Milan to be sold to the best offer," the statement said.

On July 18, the day after he allegedly released Ayling and dropped her off at the British consulate in Milan, the suspect, 30-year-old Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, was taken into custody.