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Article

17 Oct 2013

Author:
Elisabeth Braw, Guardian Sustainable Business (UK)

Global Slavery Index catalogues forced labour around the world

According to the Global Slavery Index,...29 million children and adults around the world work in servitude. India leads with about 14 million forced labourers,...China has...2.9 million and Pakistan just above 2 million. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burma and Bangladesh round out the top 10...[As] a proportion of the population, only Mauritania is worse than Haiti...Walk Free Foundation CEO Nick Grono [says] "...The clothes we wear might be made from cotton picked by forced labour in Uzbekistan....[E]lectronic games...might contain minerals extracted by forced labour in the Congo."...Professor Kevin Bales, co-founder of...Free The Slaves and the index's author [says] "...[F]ish and shrimp processing in Bangladesh and India can get very big, and these companies are supplying the European and North American frozen seafood market." [refers to Nintendo, H&M, Michael Kors, Nike, Daewoo International (part of POSCO), HP, Intel]