50 million people are living in 'modern slavery,' and the world's richest countries are fueling it
, and the World’s Richest Countries Are Fueling ItUNITED NATIONS — The world’s 20 richest countries are fueling forced labor and account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in “modern slavery,” according to a report released Wednesday.
Last September, a report by the U.N.’s International Labor Organization and International Organization for Migration and Walk Free estimated that 50 million people were living in “modern slavery” – 28 million in forced labor and 22 million in forced marriage – at the end of 2021. That was a 10 million increase in just five years from the end of 2016.Slavery Still Exists All Around the World.
Australia-based Walk Free said its 172-page report and estimates of global slavery in 160 countries draw on thousands of interviews with survivors collected through nationally representative household surveys and its assessments of a nation’s vulnerability. The countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery at the end of 2021 were North Korea, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, it said.The report stressed that forced labor occurs in every country, across many sectors and at every stage of the supply chain. It cited the demands for fast fashion and seafood as spurring forced labor that was hidden deep in those industries, while “the worst forms of child labor are used to farm and harvest the cocoa beans that end up in chocolate.
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