Executive Summary

We assess that modern slavery is increasing in its global ubiquity and scope. Driven by severe climate events, armed conflicts, and economic pressure, more people find themselves at risk of modern slavery. 

The U.S. State Department defines modern slavery in two primary forms: sex trafficking and forced labor. Sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for commercial sex acts induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or where the individual is under 18 years of age. Forced labor refers to similar actions aimed at subjecting individuals to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. [source]

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