At least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around the world, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a new study released today...nearly 10 million people are exploited through forced labour in the private economy, rather than imposed directly by states...Forced economic exploitation in such sectors as agriculture, construction, brick-making and informal sweatshop manufacturing is more or less evenly divided between the sexes. However, forced commercial sexual exploitation entraps almost entirely women and girls.