There are an estimated 40.3 million people in modern slavery around the world, including:
- 10 million children
- 24.9 million people in forced labour
- 15.4 million people in forced marriage
- 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation
Someone is in slavery if they are:
- forced to work – through coercion, or mental or physical threat;
- owned or controlled by an ’employer’ – through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;
- dehumanised – treated as a commodity or bought and sold as ‘property’;
- physically constrained or have restrictions placed on their freedom of movement. Anti-Slavery International