Study: Millions of women, girls stuck in slavery
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A NEW report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labor, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.
Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.
鈥淭he reality is that there are more people living in slavery today than any other time in human history,鈥 she told a UN news conference.
Walk Free defines modern slavery 鈥渁s the systematic removal of a person鈥檚 freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain,鈥 she said.
Forrest said the global estimate of one in 130 women and girls living in modern slavery was made based on work by Walk Free, the International Labor Organization and the International Organization for Migration, both UN agencies.
鈥淲hat this report has shown is that gender stacks the odds against girls from conception throughout their lives,鈥 she said.
According to the report, 鈥淪tacked Odds,鈥 women account for 99 percent of all victims of forced sexual exploitation, 84 percent of all victims of forced marriage, and 58 percent of all victims of forced labor.
Forrest said the face of modern slavery 鈥渉as radically changed.鈥
鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing normalized exploitation in our economy in transnational supply chains and also in migration pathways,鈥 she said.
鈥淭he world鈥檚 most vulnerable people have been pushed even further into this practice of modern slavery because of COVID-19.鈥
She said the estimate is conservative because it doesn鈥檛 account for what鈥檚 happened during the pandemic, which has seen 鈥渟harp increases of forced and child marriage and exploited work conditions around the world.鈥
Walk Free and the UN鈥檚 Every Woman Every Child program are launching a global campaign to demand action to eliminate modern slavery, urging an end to child and forced marriage, which 136 countries have yet to criminalize.
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