In this Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 photo, children and teenagers sit together to be registered by officials during a raid on a shrimp shed in Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
Some 85 per cent of the people affected were working in "privately imposed forced labour," which can include slavery, serfdom, bonded labour, and activities like forms of begging where cash taken in goes to the benefit of someone else, ILO said. The rest were in forced labour imposed by government authorities -- a practice not covered in the study,
While the report said just over one-fourth of the victims worldwide were subject to sexual exploitation, it accounted for nearly US$173 billion in profits, or nearly three-quarters of the global total -- a sign of the higher margins generated from selling sex. While countries including the United States were cited at the conference for efforts to fight forced labour, Tomei said the world was "far away" from UN goals to eradicate forced labour by 2030.
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