ridurre in schiavitù

English translation: to force into slavery/reduce to slavery

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Italian term or phrase:ridurre in schiavitù
English translation:to force into slavery/reduce to slavery
Entered by: momo savino

12:02 Jan 27, 2007
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Human Resources / lavoro
Italian term or phrase: ridurre in schiavitù
I have no context. This is what happens when some immigrants are made slaves by criminals who seize their passports and then oblige them to work or to prostitute.
Thanks for all the help you will give.
momo savino
Switzerland
Local time: 18:29
force into slavery
Explanation:
is how this concept is rendered usually: they're not "reduced" to it


Baltic girls forced into sex slavery
By Martha Buckley
BBC News

Five Albanian pimps have been convicted of sex trafficking offences after a trial at Southwark Crown Court. The inquiry was triggered by an investigation into the trade by the BBC's Six O'Clock News.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4287432.stm



The ugly reality of girls forced into slavery | The San Diego ...
The ugly reality of girls forced into slavery. March 19, 2006 ... Immigration attorney Lilia Velasquez has been among those doing more for the past five ...
www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060319/news_1mi19curran....


Untitled Document
Trafficking for Forced Labour: UK country report also establishes that the majority of people trafficked into Britain and forced into slavery enter the ...
www.kalayaan.org.uk/news.htm

Anti-Slavery International - UK government fails victims of forced ...
Trafficking for Forced Labour: UK country report also establishes that many people trafficked into Britain and forced into slavery enter the country legally ...
www.antislavery.org/archive/press/ukgovforcedlabour040906.h...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-01-27 19:14:37 GMT)
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"reduced to" is used, e.g. reduced to begging, but in the example in Q. it's different - it's a "set-up" and they're forced into it
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Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:29
Grading comment
Thanks to James for his very valid note. And of course thanks to you Rachel for your valid answer
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +9force into slavery
Rachel Fell
4reduce to slavery
Alessandro Zocchi
3enslave
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
3reduce to slavery
Shera Lyn Parpia


Discussion entries: 1





  

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reduce to slavery


Explanation:
Might be the correct answer...


    Reference: http://unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/...?Opendo...
Alessandro Zocchi
Italy
Local time: 18:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
Notes to answerer
Asker: potrrrrrebbe, ma casomai sarebbe "into" slavery, o no?

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
enslave


Explanation:
you could check the dictionary before posting... ;-)

schiavizzare...

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:29
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: If I only had one :) smack

Asker: plus: I feel like enslave is something like "schiavizzare" which sounds slightly different, doesn't it?

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
reduce to slavery


Explanation:
Rather they are to be able to use and enjoy this liberty and this ownership of property freely and licitly, and are not to be reduced to slavery. ...
www.binary.net/polycarp/slave.html

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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-01-27 15:09:45 GMT)
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Actually, "reduced" is used quite frequently in English in this context!

Plato, himself reduced to slavery until emancipated by one of his friends, unusually provides an explicit condemnation of slavery in Menon by involving a ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Ancient_Greece


Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 18:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 50
Notes to answerer
Asker: the meaning is not just the same as in Italian, thx anyway

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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
force into slavery


Explanation:
is how this concept is rendered usually: they're not "reduced" to it


Baltic girls forced into sex slavery
By Martha Buckley
BBC News

Five Albanian pimps have been convicted of sex trafficking offences after a trial at Southwark Crown Court. The inquiry was triggered by an investigation into the trade by the BBC's Six O'Clock News.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4287432.stm



The ugly reality of girls forced into slavery | The San Diego ...
The ugly reality of girls forced into slavery. March 19, 2006 ... Immigration attorney Lilia Velasquez has been among those doing more for the past five ...
www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060319/news_1mi19curran....


Untitled Document
Trafficking for Forced Labour: UK country report also establishes that the majority of people trafficked into Britain and forced into slavery enter the ...
www.kalayaan.org.uk/news.htm

Anti-Slavery International - UK government fails victims of forced ...
Trafficking for Forced Labour: UK country report also establishes that many people trafficked into Britain and forced into slavery enter the country legally ...
www.antislavery.org/archive/press/ukgovforcedlabour040906.h...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-01-27 19:14:37 GMT)
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"reduced to" is used, e.g. reduced to begging, but in the example in Q. it's different - it's a "set-up" and they're forced into it

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks to James for his very valid note. And of course thanks to you Rachel for your valid answer

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lindsay Watts
55 mins
  -> Thank you Lindsay!

agree  Sofia Dervisi
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agree  Umberto Cassano
3 hrs
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agree  Science451
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agree  Fabiola Mancinelli
3 hrs
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agree  James (Jim) Davis: "ridurre in schiavitù" is from the Italian "codice penale" and is defined a "forced into slavery"
3 hrs
  -> Thanks James - + for note:)

agree  rugiada
4 hrs
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agree  Maura Sciuccati
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agree  Melissa Stanfield
12 hrs
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