UN says 50 million people worldwide stuck in ‘modern slavery’ – By News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Sept 12, 2022
The pandemic, armed conflicts, and climate change have exacerbated conditions, trapping people in forced labour or marriage.
The number of people trapped in forced labour or forced marriage and other crises has swelled by a fifth in recent years to about 50 million on any given day, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.
The study by the UN agencies for labour and migration along with the Walk Free Foundation found that at the end of last year, more than half of those had been forced to work against their will and the rest forced into marriage, the ILO said.
That means nearly one out of every 150 people in the world are caught up in modern forms of slavery, the report said.
Both came under its definition of modern slavery as they involved people who “cannot refuse or cannot leave because of threats, violence, deception, abuse of power or other forms of coercion”, it added.
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