Slavery: The state of being under control of another person.

Slavery today is used for a variety of reasons including intense labour, debt bondage and, sex slavery.
sex slavery is the largest contributor to Human Trafficking, set to be one of the largest smuggling businesses of 2010.

You may be thinking from your history lessons that slavery has officially been abolished and is now outlawed in all countries and by the United Nations, but the fact is that SLAVERY still EXISTS in 2010.

I’m intrigued to know whether you think having sex with different girls proves our masculinity. The reason for this is because the other day I overheard a conversation between a group of guys on the bus. The gist of the conversation was that to truly be a man you need to have sex with many girls. I’m curious to know whether any of you have had similar discussions with your friends. I certainly have in the past! Let’s be honest guys, we are regularly bombarded with images of women in music videos as sexual objects.

School kids fighting on the bus, tags all over walls, bus stands covered in broken glass and youths in hoodies passing drugs to each other. It's all a normal sight on a trip to college here in London. The vicious cycle of gang culture has lead to 26 young people being killed in 2008 and the figure is looking to double or triple this year and next. Police have identified there to be 190 known gangs, and London is statistically more dangerous than New York. A quarter of gangs are said to have been involved in murder. Half involved in serious assault. This is severe.

Hey!! Just thinking about my English topic - writing an article on human rights. In this country we can go around, smiling, frowning, and thinking and expressing our own, individual thoughts. Whereas in other countries, or even in this country about 100 years back we couldn't without being put in jail, punished, or even killed (at the extremes) for expressing our beliefs, believing that coloured people should be treated equally, expressing your own thoughts and sharing your dreams and aspirations with others, etc, etc.

In May 2009, one of our Sixth Form students, Jasvin Singh applied to have the opportunity to attend a two day “BBC Interview Masterclass” course. Jasvin`s application was successful and she spent two days at Westminster learning interview techniques from professionals from the BBC. After the training, Jasvin went to the Houses of Parliament where she interviewed Mike Foster, the Secretary under State for the Department for International Development (DFID).