Forced labour and human trafficking
International Labour Organization
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Near­ly 21 mil­lion peo­ple are vic­tims of forced labour across the world, trapped in jobs which they were coerced or deceived into and which they can­not leave, accord­ing to the ILO’s glob­al estimate.

Forced labour is the term used by the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to denote sit­u­a­tions in which the per­sons involved — women and men, girls and boys — are made to work against their free will, coerced by their recruiter or employ­er, for exam­ple through vio­lence or threats of vio­lence, or by more sub­tle means such as accu­mu­lat­ed debt, reten­tion of iden­ti­ty papers or threats of denun­ci­a­tion to immi­gra­tion author­i­ties. Such sit­u­a­tions can also amount to human traf­fick­ing, bond­ed labour or slav­ery-like prac­tices. Exact­ing forced labour is a crime, and should be pun­ish­able through penal­ties which reflect the grav­i­ty of the offence.

The ILO has worked since its incep­tion to tack­le forced labour and the con­di­tions that give rise to it and has estab­lished a Spe­cial Action Pro­gramme on Forced Labour to inten­si­fy this effort.

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www.ilo.org/forcedlabour