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STORY: ILO / FORCED LABOUR REPORT
TRT: 02:18
SOURCE: ILO / UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MARCH 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Various shots, participants, journalists, UN Press Conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Blanco, Senior Research Officer, Fundamentals Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The headline result is that the total annual illegal profits from forced labour amount to a staggering figure of $236 billion annually. These translate to an average of about $10,000 in illegal profits per forced labour victim annually. What is the significance of
these numbers? These profits are at the heart of the existence of forced labour. They are so vast that represent a major driving force behind the perpetration of forced labour crimes. The human toll is also incalculable. These illegal profits represent wages, resources, livelihoods effectively stolen from workers. These not only affect the workers themselves, but also their families. And the flow of migrant remittances disrupting entire communities.”
3. Med shot, ILO Senior Research Officer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Blanco, Senior Research Officer, Fundamentals Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“One key finding of the report is that the largest share of illegal profits from forced labour is due to forced commercial and sexual exploitation rather than forced labour exploitation. Although forced commercial sexual exploitation accounts for 27 percent of all people in privately imposed forced labour, it accounts for 73 percent of total illegal profits, meaning $173 billion annually.”
5. Pan left, speakers, participants, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Blanco, Senior Research Officer, Fundamentals Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“This number is precisely at the root of the forced labour situation that we witness today in the world. The profits are so vast that that they are precisely the costs of the forced labour situation that we're witnessing in the world today.”
7. Wide shot, UN Press Conference room
According to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), forced labour in the private economy generates US$236 billion in illegal profits per year.
The total amount of illegal profits from forced labour has risen by US$64 billion (37 percent) since 2014, a dramatic increase that has been fueled by both a growth in the number of people forced into labour, as well as higher profits generated from the exploitation of victims.
