The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 at yearend 2022, a 2% increase from yearend 2021 (1,205,100).

are they just conveniently ignoring amerikkkan prison labor?

The color coding on the map being inverted for the table is infuriating

To their credit, they did remove several instances of North Korea from the Department of Labor's "list of products at risk of modern slavery by source country" because they "could not find recent evidence to verify the occurrence of forced labour".

Booooo. Real propagandists call all state employees slave laborers.

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

The DPRK has more slavery than Qatar and Saudi Arabia, neither of which even make the top 10

It's over, I've depicted myself as the country with 98.7 freedomPoints and you as the country with 12.3 FreedomPoints

Here's the absolute knobhead who funds this shit. He should be gulaged, not given heaps of unelected political power.

debt bondage....their freedom to accept or refuse a job, their freedom to leave one employer for another

So when states unemployment services require you to take shitty job offers or when they hang the Sword of Damocles health care over your head dependent on employment while the federal state and instiutions refuse and actively fight to reject universal healthcare.....when there is by official policy a poverty draft due to lack of healthcare or jobs supplying adequate income...

Crazy how the DPRK is on that top 10 but America's slave prison's aren't

it would be very funny if they just took 10% of the population and plopped it in there. Because it's suspiciously close to exactly 10%

50.000 slaves within germany seems like, a lot. Not saying it's wrong but it's not something I'd go boasting about.

wow thank goodness I don't live in a place where I am forced to labor under threat of losing my access to shelter, food, and basic civil rights

would be way higher up the list, but this is modern slavery. They still use the old-fashioned kind

Is there a good article or essay or study or anything that helps articulate why these NGOs suck ass and shouldn't be trusted? It seems like every other week there's some new NGO with some new report about america's enemies.

Always the same map

Poverty line + prison population alone puts the US higher than that. Rough in my head google math puts us at like 111 ish per one thousand with just these two demographics being counted lol

Western opinions of the DPRK are downright wacky, the propaganda against this one country is absolutely saturated in society. The average westerner knows just as much about what the DPRK is actually like as the westerners who consider themselves well read on international politics. It's like the one country where almost all people think it's ok to just never read anything about it, never investigate it, and never make a single good faith attempt to understand it. Instead it's always just repeat the last insane gossip you heard coming from the last large news media company you recall talking about scary North Korea

I don't know if it's still like this, but there was once a wikipedia article about homeownership rates by country. It made note of the DPRK specifically just to say the home ownership rate was 0%. The justification for this in the talk page was that the DPRK is an absolute monarchy, Kim Jong Un is the monarch, and therefore he owns every home in the DPRK and the ownership rate is thus 0.

Nonsense like this so pervasive that I am of the occasional mind that near all English speaking media about the DPRK should just be dismissed out of hand.