{"id":2317,"date":"2005-03-14T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/14\/\/"},"modified":"2005-03-14T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T01:15:00","slug":"2317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/2317\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC Radio 4: The slaves of Niger<\/strong><br \/>Gerry Northam travels to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropop.org\/explore\/show_region\/ID\/1\" rel=\"external\">Niger<\/a> where it is estimated that as many as 870,000 people, nearly eight per cent of the population, are slaves. Their masters control them completely, according to human rights organisations.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/crossing_continents\/4314435.stm\" rel=\"external\">Listen to the programme<\/a><\/strong> <em>(Real Audio)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/specials\/1357_slavery_today\/\" rel=\"external\">Slavery Today<\/a><\/strong> explores some of the places where slavery is still common and takes a look at the fastest growing problem in modern slavery: trafficking people into the West.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antislavery.org\/\" rel=\"external\">Anti Slavery International<\/a>.<\/strong> More info about slavery in Niger on this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4: The slaves of NigerGerry Northam travels to Niger where it is estimated that as many as 870,000 people, nearly eight per cent of the population, are slaves. Their masters control them completely, according to human rights organisations. &bull; Listen to the programme (Real Audio) Slavery Today explores some of the places where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}