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According to the report, illegal profits from forced labor have increased sharply. The world is not doing enough to expand renewable energy

According to a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), illegal profits from forced labor are increasing rapidly. She estimates the exploiters’ profits at $236 billion a year. the organization reported on Tuesday in Geneva.

That is 37 percent more than in 2014. The estimate is based on figures from 2021. Two-thirds of the profit came from forced prostitution. According to EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator Diane Schmitt, the increase is alarming but can also be explained by better monitoring and detection of forced labor.

Profit refers to the difference between what people were paid and what they would have been entitled to under proper working conditions. The increase is the result of both the increasing number of people affected and the fact that profits per person have increased. These are particularly high in the Europe and Central Asia region, which includes more than fifty countries, from Iceland to Turkey and Russia.

Nearly 28 million forced laborers

The ILO defines forced labor as follows:

“Any work or service required of a person under penalty and for which that person has not volunteered.”

On any given day in 2021, 27.6 million people worldwide would have performed forced labor, for example in mines, agriculture or domestic work, statistically 3.5 people per 1,000 people on earth. 6.3 million of them were forced into prostitution. According to the ILO, the total number was 2.7 million higher than five years earlier. More than half of those affected live in the Asia-Pacific region (15.1 million). The Europe/Central Asia region comes in second with 4.1 million.

Better supervision

“Forced labor perpetuates the cycle of poverty and exploitation and strikes at the core of human dignity,” said ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo. The ILO calls for better supervision of economic sectors vulnerable to exploitation and insists that exploiters are consistently held accountable.

The ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations in which governments, employers and workers are represented. (saw/sda/awp/dpa)

Soource :Watson

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