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STORY: ILO / FORCED LABOR
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, press room
2. SOUNDBITE (English), Corinne Vargha, Chief, Fundamental Principles and rights at Work Branch, ILO :
“ Actually we want to enhance our global understanding of this phenomenon, forced labour, of its related practice. And also of the gains it’s generated. And hopefully this will then enable the world to developmore effective policies and actions to fight forced labour.”
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Beate Andrees, Head of Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, ILO :
“The total estimated profits are 150 billion US dollars per year. This is broken by several economic activities. So the first major one is forced sexual exploitation and we estimate that the profits generated through forced sexual exploitation are 99 billion US dollars per year. So this about two thirds of the total profits.”
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5. Various shots, sex workers
19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Beate Andrees, Head of Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, ILO :
“The basis for this calculation is the 21 million men, women and children estimated to be in forced labour at any point in time.”
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7. Various shots, sex workers
19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Beate Andrees, Head of Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, ILO :
““We estimated that 55 per cent of the 21 million victims are women and girls and about 44 per cent had migrated within their country or across borders.”
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9. Various shots, migrants entering bus
19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
10. SOUNDBITE (English), Beate Andrees, Head of Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, ILO :
“Households that are extremely poor and they find it very difficult to deal with sudden income shocks and therefore need to borrow money to smooth consumption are at a higher risk of forced labour than others.”
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11. Various shots, workers in the field
19 MAY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
12. SOUNDBITE (English), Beate Andrees, Head of Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, ILO :
“It is clear that it’s often a network of people profiting from forced labour starting from money lender, a person who organizes the journey, but also then of course the employer, and sometimes we also see the involvement of organized crime.”
13. Wide shot, press room
Forced labour in the private economy generates $ 150 billion in illegal profits per year, about three times more than previously estimated, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The ILO report, Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour, said two thirds of the estimated total of $150 billion, or $99 billion, came from commercial sexual exploitation, while another $51 billion resulted from forced economic exploitation, including domestic work, agriculture and other economic activities.
The new figure is based on ILO data published in 2012 that estimated the number of people in forced labour, trafficking and modern slavery at 21 million.
Significantly, the new estimate indicates that more than half of the people in forced labour are women and girls, primarily in commercial sexual exploitation and domestic work, while men and boys were primarily in forced economic exploitation in agriculture, construction, and mining.
The breakdown of profits generated by forced economic exploitation is as follows:$34 billion in construction, manufacturing, mining and utilities; $9 billion in agriculture, including forestry and fishing; $8 billion saved by private households by not paying or underpaying domestic workers held in forced labour.
The report highlights income shocks and poverty as the main economic factors that push individuals into forced labour. Other factors contributing to risk and vulnerability include lack of education, illiteracy, gender and migration.
Report called for a series of measures aimed at reducing vulnerability to forced labour including bolstering social protection floors to prevent poor households from abusive lending or indenture in the event of sudden income shocks; Investing in education and skills training to fortify job opportunities for vulnerable workers; promoting a rights-based approach to migration to prevent irregular employment and abuse of migrant workers; and supporting the organization of workers, including in sectors and industries vulnerable to forced labour.
