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Modern Slavery
- GHRD Team
- 2 July 2025
Modern slavery, a term often associated with past times, remains a pervasive and omnipresent prevailing issue in our contemporary world. Despite its often invisible nature in the Western world, modern slavery keeps being an issue for many people worldwide, depriving individuals of their fundamental freedom, human rights, and dignity.
This complex issue appears in various forms like forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, adapting and evolving with global economic and social shifts.
Despite international legal frameworks that are aimed at eradicating modern forms of slavery, like Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), which explicitly prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced labour, or conventions established by the International Labour Organization like the Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour (1930) and several regional instruments, modern slavery continues to thrive, fueled by inequality, severe poverty, and discrimination paired with a lack of awareness.
Victims are often the most marginalized groups, who are exploited by industries, hidden by ambiguous supply chains, and left without justice or accountability for the ones responsible. Due to a lack of verified data, the actual number of victims of modern slavery is likely worse than anticipated, making forced labor a crisis found in every country and industry, as well as across diverse demographics.
While there are various forms of modern slavery, many closely related and sometimes gathered under the term forced labor, this report aims at dissecting these nuances, shedding light on human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution.
This complex issue appears in various forms like forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, adapting and evolving with global economic and social shifts.
Despite international legal frameworks that are aimed at eradicating modern forms of slavery, like Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), which explicitly prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced labour, or conventions established by the International Labour Organization like the Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour (1930) and several regional instruments, modern slavery continues to thrive, fueled by inequality, severe poverty, and discrimination paired with a lack of awareness.
Victims are often the most marginalized groups, who are exploited by industries, hidden by ambiguous supply chains, and left without justice or accountability for the ones responsible. Due to a lack of verified data, the actual number of victims of modern slavery is likely worse than anticipated, making forced labor a crisis found in every country and industry, as well as across diverse demographics.
While there are various forms of modern slavery, many closely related and sometimes gathered under the term forced labor, this report aims at dissecting these nuances, shedding light on human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution.
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Modern slavery, a term often associated with past times, remains a pervasive and omnipresent prevailing issue in our contemporary world. Despite its often invisible nature in the Western world, modern slavery keeps being an issue for many people worldwide, depriving individuals of their fundamental freedom, human rights, and dignity.
This complex issue appears in various forms like forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, adapting and evolving with global economic and social shifts.
Despite international legal frameworks that are aimed at eradicating modern forms of slavery, like Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), which explicitly prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced labour, or conventions established by the International Labour Organization like the Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour (1930) and several regional instruments, modern slavery continues to thrive, fueled by inequality, severe poverty, and discrimination paired with a lack of awareness.
Victims are often the most marginalized groups, who are exploited by industries, hidden by ambiguous supply chains, and left without justice or accountability for the ones responsible. Due to a lack of verified data, the actual number of victims of modern slavery is likely worse than anticipated, making forced labor a crisis found in every country and industry, as well as across diverse demographics.
While there are various forms of modern slavery, many closely related and sometimes gathered under the term forced labor, this report aims at dissecting these nuances, shedding light on human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution.
This complex issue appears in various forms like forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, adapting and evolving with global economic and social shifts.
Despite international legal frameworks that are aimed at eradicating modern forms of slavery, like Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), which explicitly prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced labour, or conventions established by the International Labour Organization like the Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour (1930) and several regional instruments, modern slavery continues to thrive, fueled by inequality, severe poverty, and discrimination paired with a lack of awareness.
Victims are often the most marginalized groups, who are exploited by industries, hidden by ambiguous supply chains, and left without justice or accountability for the ones responsible. Due to a lack of verified data, the actual number of victims of modern slavery is likely worse than anticipated, making forced labor a crisis found in every country and industry, as well as across diverse demographics.
While there are various forms of modern slavery, many closely related and sometimes gathered under the term forced labor, this report aims at dissecting these nuances, shedding light on human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution.
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