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50 Million People Lived in 'Modern Slavery' Last Year — a 25% Increase From Last UN Report
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Crises including the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and armed conflict have underpinned rises in extreme poverty, unsafe migration, and gender-based violence in recent years, raising the risk of all forms of modern slavery.
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GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. labor agency estimates that some 50 million people worldwide were living in "modern slavery" - either in forced labor or marriage
By Rhea Mogul, CNN From the pandemic to the climate crisis, disasters of the past five years have upended daily life, and a new report shows that in many countries the ensuing economic uncertainty has pushed millions into modern slavery.
Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said Monday, warning that their ranks had swelled dramatically in recent years.
According to a report by two UN agencies, the number of people in forced labor or marriages increased by 10 million between 2016 and 2021. Climate change and the coronavirus pandemic are contributing factors.
Crises including the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and armed conflict have underpinned rises in extreme poverty, unsafe migration, and gender-based violence in recent years, raising the risk of all forms of modern slavery.
The U.N. labor agency estimates that some 50 million people worldwide were living in "modern slavery" - either in forced labor or marriage – at the end of last year, marking a 25% jump from its previous report five years ago.
Nearly 50 million people globally are living in "modern slavery" on any given day, the United Nations revealed in a report Monday, marking a significant increase from the same assessment five years ago.
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