This question is a difficult one to answer. There are several factors to consider. First, a definition of slavery: slavery is the forced labor, through mental or physical threat or bondage, that is not paid or compensated in any other form. News media and international organizations often refer to this as human trafficking. This is similar to the transatlantic slave trade that occurred between Africa, Europe and the colonies (and later the United States). However, not all slaves are kidnapped. Some children are sold into slavery to pay their parents' debts, some people are forced into slavery to pay off their own debts, some are prisoners of war, and some are tricked into slavery (some slave traders tell poor, frustrated people in LDCs that they will be able to find a job in a new country; when they arrive, they find the only job available is bond labor). Slaves come in all ages, races and genders. They are used as forced prostitutes, soldiers, and laborers. International organizations such as Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, and the United Nations estimate that between 20 and 27 million people are in a situation of forced labor today. For comparison, this is more people in bond labor at one time than ever before. The legality of slavery is a harder question to answer. Most countries have laws against slavery, but that does not preclude the usage of bond laborers in that country, even by the official government. Other times, human trafficking takes place on the black markets: governments either turn a blind eye, are unaware of the trafficking, or are impotent to stop it. Internationally, the Declaration of Human Rights, which forbids human trafficking and forced labor, is considered to be the end all of international law in regards to slavery. The DHR is part of the United Nations constitution, drafted in 1948. While many states agree to follow the rights laid out in the DHR, it is not an internationally signed agreement. In fact, there are no signatories; in 1948, 48 countries voted to ratify the DHR, with 0 nays and only 8 abstentions, but they did not sign it. Therefore, unlike agreements like the Kyoto Protocols or the Geneva Conventions, countries that are in contempt of the DHR can not be legally punished; it is not official international law. Forced labor unfortunately takes place on every continent in the world except Antartica. Human trafficking even takes place in the US. Here are some links that might be helpful to you: www.iabolish.com www.antislavery.org www.unhcr.org www.hrw.org

Virtually, nowaday there are no countries that have legal slavery However, in place like Saudis Arabia and some of the African countries, black slavery is still very common. You never hear in tv news because it is so common that there is no value of news element in it. Furtheremore, there are still many brutal tortures in some cases

YES, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! The 13th Amendment states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." An increasing number of prisons in the U.S. are run by corporations, using their prisoners as workers and selling their labor to corporations. Federal safety and health standards do not protect prison labor, nor do the National Labor Relations Board policies. The corporations do not even have to pay minimum wage. J.C. Penney, Victoria's Secret, IBM, Toys R Us and TWA are among the US corporations that have profited by employing prisoners. Put together long mandatory sentences for minor drug offences, a strong racial bias, prisons run by corporations for profit, the sale of convict labor to corporations, and a charge for prison room and board and you have a modern system of bonded labor - a social condition otherwise known as slavery.

Basically any country run on capitalist principles. If your wages just covers your rent and food, then you are a slave as that is all slaves got.

Several nations of Africa still have slavery. Whether it is technically legal, i don't know, but it is very open in many African societies. I used to work with someone from Nigeria who spoke quite casually about her father's slaves and I know other Nigerians who talk openly about slavery in their country. Also, Saudi Arabia didn't officially abolish slavery until the 1960s and even today they have an active slave industry.... especially involving the enslavement of kidnapped Western and Asian females. It's really the most repulsive country IMO.

Although it isn't slavery on paper, the way women are treated in Saudi Arabia is equatable to slavery. . If a married woman gets raped, she is stoned to death for adultery...I don't know how you could call that anything but slavery

Brazil Cote d'Ivoire Mali Mauritania Niger Sudan ANY MANY OTHER COUNTRIES..........

Technically illegal everywhere. But the government often refuses to enforce it. Thus a government just small enough to allow companies to be free market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_day_slavery

Slavery is illegal in nearly every country in the world, yet it is still practiced in nearly every country in the world. Today, there are 27 million slaves in the world and there is currently between 14,500 and 17,500 slaves in the United States. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal have the highest slave population in the world, though. A hundred years ago one slave would cost $40,000 in today's money. Today, one slave costs, on average, $90.

If by slavery you mean someone who is made to work by threat of force and given a bare minimum sustenance then one would be America. It's called child support.