construction sites Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/construction-sites/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 construction sites Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/construction-sites/ 32 32 UN bodies record 40 million cases of modern slavery https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/un-bodies-record-40-million-cases-modern-slavery/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/11/un-bodies-record-40-million-cases-modern-slavery/ African and European leaders have expressed outrage at footage of migrants being held in Libya being sold into slavery. Authoritative UN bodies say this is the tip of the iceberg. They’ve recorded 40-million cases of modern slavery in 2016.   The International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration  say they’ve documented 25 million […]

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]]> African and European leaders have expressed outrage at footage of migrants being held in Libya being sold into slavery.

Authoritative UN bodies say this is the tip of the iceberg.

They’ve recorded 40-million cases of modern slavery in 2016.

 

The International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration  say they’ve documented 25 million cases of forced labour and coercion.

They also have 15 million cases of forced marriage on their books.

A quarter of cases in the first category are in private homes.

But there are also modern slaves in factories, on construction sites, farms and fishing boats.

The victims are either too scared, drugged or too far from home to have any chance of escaping.

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