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Bookmark or Share- 50 million people worldwide in modern slaveryModern slavery. 50 million people worldwide in modern slavery. Latest estimates show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years, according to the International Labour Organization, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration.
- Forced labour, modern slavery and trafficking in personsForced labour is a severe violation of human rights affecting 27.6 million of men, women and children in all countries and all economic sectors.
- 40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the ...The new estimates also show that women and girls are disproportionately affected by modern slavery, accounting almost 29 million, or 71 per cent of the overall total. Women represent 99 per cent of the victims of forced labour in the commercial sex industry and 84 per cent of forced marriages.
- What is forced labour? - International Labour Organization“Slavery” is defined under Article 1(1) of the League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery (the Slavery Convention), 1926, as “the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised”.
- Global Estimates of Modern Slavery - International Labour Organizationforced labour in the commercial sex in-dustry and 58 per cent in other sectors, 40 per cent of victims of forced labour imposed by state authorities, and 84 per cent of victims of forced marriages. One in four victims of modern slavery were children. Some 37 per cent (5.7 million) of those forced to marry were children. Children represented
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