Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: AFRICA
Forced labour has tended to receive less attention in Africa than in other regions, in part because of difficulties in collecting reliable information about the extent and nature of the problem. Nonetheless, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the third highest incidence of forced labour in relation to population, after Asia and Latin America. And serious abuses have been reported in a number of countries.
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Type Fact sheet Date issued 2009 Unit responsible Communication and Public Information Subjects forced labour Download English - pdf 38 KB