Modern slavery has risen significantly in last five years, new report says

[Sir Mohamed]

It's really a shame this continues to happen.

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1569323640381906947

From the article:

The number of people living in modern slavery reached an estimated 50 million in 2021, marking a significant increase since 2016, according to a new report published Monday by the UN's labor agency.

The big picture: Overlapping crises — from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change to armed conflicts — have caused "unprecedented disruption to employment and education" and increased extreme poverty, unsafe migration, and gender-based violence, leading to a heightened risk of modern slavery, according to the report.

Be smart: The International Labour Organization report defines modern slavery as being "comprised of two principal components — forced labour and forced marriage."

By the numbers: More than 9 million more people are living in modern slavery in 2021 than in 2016, per the report.

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[dead0man]

nobody in the west cares because white people aren't (generally) involved.  Brown people enslaving other brown people is too complicated to process for the modern person in the west, so we ignore it.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yes, some people do care and are even campaigning on it.

What it is fairly correct to say is that most *governments* don't seem that bothered by it.

[Aurelius]

To clarify the OP, unless the definitions have changed recently high income country in an international context means GDP per capita of $10,000+ and upper middle income means $4,000-$10,000. These are not strictly companies at the income level of US/Western Europe/Japan.

[Person Man]

nobody in the west cares because white people aren't (generally) involved.  Brown people enslaving other brown people is too complicated to process for the modern person in the west, so we ignore it.

Unfortunately but hopefully the sphere of moral concern will start widening again.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

What percentage are in the US? The Congo has universal health care so I assume we have a higher number.