Gilbert Houngbo, Director General of the International Labor Organization , addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 29, 2022. Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N.
The International Labor Organization said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered in the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37 percent, or $64 billion, compared with its last estimate published a decade ago. That’s a result of both more people being exploited and more cash generated from each victim, ILO said.
Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.“People in forced labor are subject to multiple forms of coercion, the deliberate and systematic withholding of wages being amongst the most common,” he said. “Forced labor perpetuates cycles of poverty and exploitation and strikes at the heart of human dignity.
Some 85 percent of the people affected were working in “privately imposed forced labor,” which can include slavery, serfdom, bonded labor, and activities like forms of begging where cash taken in goes to the benefit of someone else, ILO said. The rest were in forced labor imposed by government authorities—a practice not covered in the study.
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