Report: 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery

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Report: 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery:


  • A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude.
  • Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organisation, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.
  • Walk Free defines modern slavery “as the systematic removal of a person's freedom, where one person is exploited by another for personal or financial gain,” she said

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