That everyone should be, I mean to say, free to enjoy his right. So you cannot encroach upon others’ right.
But here, in our material conception of life, our only business is to encroach upon the right of others.
Bhagavad-gita 9.23-24
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
New York, December 10, 1966
Victims of forced labour by region |
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Geneva (ILO News) – 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 new global estimate.
The Asia-Pacific region accounts for the largest number of forced labourers in the world – 11.7 million (56 per cent) of the global total, followed by Africa at 3.7 million (18 per cent) and Latin America with 1.8 million victims (9 per cent).
The head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, Beate Andrees, says that the methodology has been revised and improved since the ILO’s initial estimate in 2005 and the numbers are more robust now. “We have come a long way over the last seven years since we first put an estimate on how many people were forced into labour or services across the world. We have also made good progress ensuring most countries now have legislation which criminalises forced labour, human trafficking and slavery-like practices”.
source: ILO.org
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