As Many as 27 Million Forced Into Slavery Worldwide
A report published ahead of this month’s meeting United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery claims that as many as 27 million people worldwide are held in one form of slavery or another, most of them children.
The report, put together by Anti-Slavery International, highlights the plight of bonded agricultural workers in Pakistan, slavery in the Sudan, and the worldwide problem of child domestic servants and the sexual exploitation of children. Other countries cited by the report as tolerating slavery included Brazil, Mauritania, and the United Arab Emirates.
Sources:
United Nations Meets On Global Slavery. Anti-Slavery International, May 2002.
Millions ‘forced into slavery’. The BBC, May 27, 2002.
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