NORTH KOREA
In Bad Company
North Korea is the world’s worst offender when it comes to modern-day slavery. But the phenomenon is also surprisingly prevalent in “highly developed, high-income countries,” according to the latest report from the Walk Free Foundation – which has tracked slavery worldwide since 2013.
Some 2.6 million forced laborers – or one out of 10 citizens – in North Korea are effectively slaves, the New York Daily News citedthe 2018 Global Index Survey as saying. Such government-imposed labor is also common in Eritrea and Burundi, which come in second and third on the list.
Based on 71,000 interviews in 48 countries, the report estimated that some 40.3 million people – including 15 million in forced marriages – were living under modern slavery in 2016. The top 10 worst offenders indicated a link between slavery and repressive political regimes. But Walk Free also estimated that in the United States 403,000 people – or 1 in every 800 – are living in modern slavery, seven-times higher than it previously believed, CNN reported.
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