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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Rachel More and Emma Farge

Modern slavery on the rise as crises fuel poverty - U.N. report

FILE PHOTO: A worker puts final touches at Al Bayt Stadium, one of the venues of the Qatar World Cup 2022, in Al Khor, Qatar, November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

The number of people forced into modern forms of slavery has risen by a fifth in recent years to around 50 million on any given day amid a surge in poverty and other crises, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.

More than a half of those had been forced to work against their will and others forced into marriage, the ILO said.

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