Modern Slavery: A Global Crisis with the U.S. Among 17 Countries Practicing Forced Labor.
The United States is one of 17 countries that still practice state-sanctioned forced labor, according to a report by Walk Free, an Australian human rights organization, in collaboration with the United Nations’ International Labor Organization and International Organization for Migration. The report finds evidence of state-imposed forced labor in Belarus, Brazil, China, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mongolia, Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Worldwide, government authorities forced some 3.9 million people to work in 2021, among an estimated 50 million people enslaved in involuntary labor or marriage, according to the report.