• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      The private economy is the main source of the rise, while state-enforced labour counts for one in seven cases of modern slavery, the report adds.

      I wonder if mandatory military service counts for “state-enforced labor”

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        11 months ago

        The UN sponsored report uses a pretty liberal definition of slavery to include things like wage theft (which forces workers to stay at a job until they’re fully compensated), sex trafficking, and domestic servitude where the servant’s documents are confiscated so that they can’t flee.

        However, there’s still a hell of a lot whips and chains slavery in Africa and South East Asia. Those slaves serve the excavation and manufacturing industries.