![]() ![]() The country dominates Central Asia economically and politically, generating 60 per cent of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil and gas industry it also has vast mineral resources. It has a population of 19 million people, and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per square mile). Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, the largest and northernmost Muslim-majority country by land area, and the ninth-largest country in the world. ![]() Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, was the country's capital until 1997. ![]() Its capital is Astana, known as Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea. Tomnod has run other projects including monitoring illegal fishing in Costa Rica and locating elephant poachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is currently documenting the damage caused by Hurricane Patricia after it struck Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday.Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. ![]() Yet hard data could increase the government’s efforts to end slavery, by prosecuting traffickers and providing social support so that there is somewhere for children to escape to, he added. “Unfortunately you don’t have to look hard to find children working on the lake, but it takes a lot to mount rescue operations that are backed up by the long-term support necessary to ensure children are not retrafficked,” Annan said. Tackling trafficking on the lake is hindered more by limited resources than a lack of data, said James Kofi Annan, who escaped slavery at 13 and set up the charity Challenging Heights to rescue children and prevent others from being enslaved. “We hope a network of NGOs working together will galvanise around the data,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. More than 20,000 children are forced into slavery on Lake Volta, the International Labour Organization estimates. “Child slavery is an abomination to mankind, and I will do anything I can to expose the scum that practise it,” said Brown, who spends his time tagging a map of the lake when not working towards his online communications and leadership degree. DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting in the office at his home in Washington, 67-year-old graduate student Patrick Brown spends hours searching for boats and buildings on a satellite photograph as part of an online project to combat child slavery in Ghana’s vast Lake Volta.īrown is one of thousands of volunteer “mappers” around the world laying down digital markers in an attempt to establish the extent of child trafficking in the fishing industry across one of the world’s biggest man-made lakes.Ĭrowdsourcing project Tomnod is working with the public-private partnership The Global Fund to End Slavery to produce accurate and public data - which could be used by activists, campaigners and the government to clamp down on trafficking. ![]()
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