https://www.scmp.com/rss/325250/feed Dr Zoe Fortune is research adviser to the Mekong Club en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A new report released this week has revised the number of people in modern slavery, estimating it at 40.3 million people worldwide today. This means that, on any given day in 2016, there were 25 million people in forced labour and 15 million in a forced marriage. This equates to 5.4 victims of modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the world – 71 per cent of whom are women and one in four of whom are children. There are therefore estimated to be more people living in modern slavery than... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2112214/fighting-slavery-remains-global-challenge-whatever-numbers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2112214/fighting-slavery-remains-global-challenge-whatever-numbers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:26:15 +0000