
Forced Labor: New report says millions of vulnerable people worldwide remain trapped in modern slavery
Nearly 50 million people were trapped in forced labor or forced marriage on any given day in 2021, according to a new report published on September 12, the latest reminder that “the scourge of modern slavery has by no means been relegated to history.” The International Labour Organization (ILO), Walk Free, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) found that the number of people around the globe living in slavery — defined as a situation of “exploitation that a person cannot refuse or cannot leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, or abuse of power” — increased by 9.3...
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