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Warfare, slave raids, legal punishments, self-sales, or sales by relatives, and inheritance of slave status from birth were the common ways individuals become a slave in Central Asia. Linguistic analysis of the vocabulary used for slavery in early Central Asian societies suggests a strong connection between military actions and slavery. [ 18 ]
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . [237] As of February 17, 2025, there have been 4,173,631 [ 128 ] reported cases, and 66,864 [ 128 ] reported deaths, the fifth highest in Southeast Asia , behind Vietnam ...
This is a general overview and status of places affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei in China in December 2019. It ...
25–60% of European population [5] 541–549 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 HIV/AIDS pandemic: HIV/AIDS: 44 million (as of 2025) – 1981–present [6] Worldwide 4 Black Death: Bubonic plague: 25–50 million 30–60% of European population [7] 1346–1353 Europe, Asia, and North Africa 5 COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19
First World Anti-Slavery Convention meets in London. New Zealand: Taking slaves banned by Treaty of Waitangi. [118] 1841 United Kingdom France Russia Prussia Austria: Quintuple Treaty agreeing to suppress the slave trade. [70] United States: United States v.
Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...
An October 2020 poll from the Central European Institute of Asian Studies [266] had more than half of Swedish respondents agreeing that COVID-19 spread due to Chinese people eating bats and other wild animals, which was a higher percentage than the other 12 European countries surveyed.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Turkish parliament accepted a bill which could enable the release of up to 100,000 prisoners, including people responsible for deaths. However, the law excludes Turkey's around 50,000 political prisoners , [ 25 ] including journalists and human rights defenders, who are said to remain jailed despite ...