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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the \u201cobscene\u201d amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes.<\/p>\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%, 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.<\/p>\n

\u201c$236 billion. This is the obscene level of annual profit generated from forced labor in the world today,\u201d the first line of the report’s introduction said. That figure represents earnings \u201ceffectively stolen from the pockets of workers\u201d by those who coerce them to work, as well as money taken from remittances of migrants and lost tax revenue for governments.<\/p>\n

Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.<\/p>\n

Its director-general, Gilbert Houngbo, wants international cooperation to fight the racket.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in forced labor are subject to multiple forms of coercion, the deliberate and systematic withholding of wages being amongst the most common,” he said. \u201cForced labor perpetuates cycles of poverty and exploitation and strikes at the heart of human dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now know that the situation has only got worse,\u201d Houngbo added.<\/p>\n

ILO defines forced labor as work that’s imposed against the will of the employee and exacted under penalty \u2014 or the threat of one. It can happen at any phase of employment: during recruitment, in living conditions associated with work or by forcing people to stay in a job when they want to leave it.<\/p>\n

On any given day in 2021, an estimated 27.6 million people were in forced labor \u2014 a 10% rise from five years earlier, ILO said. The Asia-Pacific region was home to more than half of those, while Africa, the Americas, and Europe-Central Asia each represented about 13% to 14%.<\/p>\n

Some 85% of the people affected were working in \u201cprivately imposed forced labor,\u201d 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 \u2014 a practice not covered in the study.<\/p>\n

While just over one-fourth of the victims worldwide were subject to sexual exploitation, it accounted for nearly $173 billion in profits, or nearly three-quarters of the global total \u2014 a sign of the higher margins generated from selling sex.<\/p>\n

Some 6.3 million people faced situations of forced commercial sexual exploitation on any given day three years ago \u2014 and nearly four in five of those victims were girls or women, ILO said. Children accounted for more than a quarter of the total cases.<\/p>\n

Forced labor in industry trailed in a distant second, at $35 billion, followed by services at nearly $21 billion, agriculture at $5 billion and domestic work at $2.6 billion, the Geneva-based labor agency said.<\/p>\n

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