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Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/09/19/535693/Slave-Report-2017
According to a report by International Labor Office (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, approximately 40.3 million men, women and children were victims of “modern slavery” in 2016. The study, Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, is based on surveys by the two groups in 48 countries; interviews with more than 71,000 people. Three out of every four slaves were women and girls, one in four was a child, children account for 10 million mostly in Africa, followed by Asia and the Pacific. Nearly five million people in the world were sex slaves