News on forced labour

May 2014

  1. © Munir Uz Zaman / AFP 2022

    ILO says forced labour generates annual profits of US$ 150 billion

    20 May 2014

    Report finds illegal gain from forced labour of about 21 million people amounts to three times more than prior estimates.

June 2006

  1. Final whistle to human trafficking and sexual exploitation

    15 June 2006

    As the football World Cup 2006 gets underway, a German NGO has launched a campaign against human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation. According to German police sources, fears that the number of women trafficked for sex work during the games might go into the tens of thousands have failed to materialize.