The United Nations’s labour organisation is keen to stress that slavery is not confined to poor countries far away from the Western world – more than half of all forced labour happens in wealthier countries in the upper-middle or high-income bracket. The Covid-19 pandemic, for example, caused major disruption to people’s income, leading to more debt which could be leveraged into forced labour in some cases. War and armed conflict likewise lead to dire circumstances, or the recruitment of children to work or serve as child soldiers; while climate change has forced people to leave their homes and become migrants – immediately placing them at greater risk. Modern slavery is a growing challenge caused by a mix of armed conflict, climate change and the global pandemic. Do you think that united nations have failed to protect enslaved human beings ?

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