Peter Smith 
Is there slavery in your chocolate? Or your sugar?
Check out Anti-Slavery International's well-designed website—and the accompanying poster (PDF)—for a simple illustration of the wide range of products that are produced around the world at the hands of forced laborers. The data-visualization reveals the sobering origins of 122 different products in 58 countries, whose true source is either concealed or over-looked
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