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10,000 People a Day Must be Freed to End Slavery by 2030

28/9/19
"Six years after initiating my term as Special Rapporteur, it is sobering to say that the way to freedom from slavery remains long in spite of the legal abolition of slavery worldwide," said UN expert on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola.
"Clearly, preventing and addressing slavery is not as simple as declaring it to be illegal but much more can and must be done to end slavery by 2030."
According to the International Labour Organization, over 40 million are enslaved around the world. While presenting her latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Bhoola pointed out that servitude will likely increase as the world faces rapid changes in the workplace, environmental degradation, migration and demographic shifts.
She further indicated that over 64 percent of those enslaved work in the private sector, a quarter of global servitude is of children, and a chocking 98 percent of enslaved women and girls have endured sexual violence.
People in the informal sector, which represents 90 percent of the workforce in developing countries, are at higher risk of being exploited or enslaved, Bhoola added.
"By 2030, some 85 percent of the more than 25 million young people entering the labour force globally will be in developing and emerging countries. Their perspectives to access jobs offering decent work will determine their level of vulnerability to exploitation, including slavery," Bhoola said.
The figures she presented were a "wake-up call" for countries to prepare themselves to tackle slavery more effectively as "10,000 would need to be freed each day if we are to eradicate contemporary forms of slavery by 2030," she added quoting recent figures from the NGO Walk Free.
Bhoola said that some States had already elected to exclude from public contracts suppliers whose supply chain presented risks of slavery. Other Governments were using anti-money laundering systems to encourage companies to prevent proceeds of slavery from entering the financial system.
The expert regretted, however, that efforts to end slavery had been insufficient. She pointed out that convictions against perpetrators and their risk to face justice remain minimal.
"Slavery is economically clearly unprofitable; it leads to broader public health costs, productivity losses, negative environmental externalities and lost income," Bhoola stressed, proposing a new approach against slavery that is "systematic, scientific, strategic, sustainable, survivor-informed and smart."
Bhoola urged States to commit more resources to end slavery, and adopt and implement public policies that effectively address that scourge.
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LawrenceSamuels 28/9/19 15:35

More than 40 million people have been estimated to be captive in modern slavery, which includes forced labour and forced marriage

For A Peace World 28/9/19 16:11

less than half of all countries rank forced labour as a crime and most do not regard forced marriage as a crime

Gentle Moon 28/9/19 16:14

Ending modern slavery by 2030 was one of the global goals adopted unanimously by members of the United Nations four years ago.

yobro yobro 28/9/19 16:15

But at today's rate, achieving that goal is "impossible"

Me Too! 28/9/19 16:16

At current progress, we will not be able to eradicate modern slavery by 2030

Vietnam Love 28/9/19 16:17

The group assessed 183 governments on such factors as the identification of slavery survivors, criminal justice, support systems and efforts to clean up supply chains.

Voice of people 28/9/19 16:18

The worst countries for modern slavery were North Korea and Eritrea, where governments are complicit in forced labour

Duncan 28/9/19 16:19

approximately 6.9 million people were in some form of modern slavery in these countries.

The free Wind 28/9/19 16:20

Wealthy countries that have taken little action were Qatar, Singapore, Kuwait, Brunei, Hong Kong and Russia

Jacky Thomas 28/9/19 16:21

Some countries have slowed or slipped backward in their efforts by reducing the number of victims identified, decreasing anti-slavery funding or cutting back on support systems

Enda Thompson 28/9/19 16:21

While an estimated 16 million people are trapped in forced labour, only 40 countries have investigated public or business supply chains to look at such exploitation.

Kevin Evans 28/9/19 16:22

In nearly 100 countries, forced labour is not considered a crime or is a minor offence

Egan 28/9/19 16:23

Ten thousand a day is massive, but a government can eradicate slavery by the hundreds of thousands in strokes

Robinson Jones 28/9/19 16:25

Bonded labour or debt bondage is when a workers’ labor is demanded to repay a loan. The person is usually coerced into working long after the loan is repaid. Often, the debt is passed on to the next generation.

Swift Hoodie 28/9/19 16:26

Forced labor is any work which people are forced to do against their will.

Wilson Pit 28/9/19 16:27

Child slavery is one of the most shocking forms of slavery.

Allforcountry 28/9/19 16:28

Worldwide it is estimated that that one in four victims of slavery are children. Children’s labour is exploited in many jobs, including physical labor and domestic slavery.

John Smith 28/9/19 16:29

Live-in migrant domestic workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation because, confined to a private home, they are isolated from protections offered in a regular workplace.

LawrenceSamuels 28/9/19 16:29

Human trafficking is the act of recruiting or transferring a person by means of coercion, abduction or deception for the purpose of exploitation.

Herewecome 28/9/19 16:30

Although most people assume sexual exploitation to be the most common reason for trafficking people, it is in fact for forced labor.

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