Write Althea and Asclepius, LUDCI.eu Editorial Team

About 46 million people in the world are living as slaves. They are forced to work in factories, mines, and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage, or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by Walk Free Foundation Rights Group.

Most people think of modern-day slavery in terms of girls forced to become sex workers, but this is the only representative of the total activities involved in human trafficking. Sex work accounts for only about 19% of the total forced labour cases. The remaining percentage is scattered through networks of supply chains and in the private sector. Trafficked persons work anywhere within the process of production from raw materials to the finished products.

There have been efforts by several international and local bodies in response to modern slavery but this has barely scratched the surface of the global problem. In the many small-scale success stories reported, many of the victims were never identified. The Trafficking in Persons Report for last year is illustrative of this fact. It accounts for some 86, 000 victims receiving aid in the world. This figure accounts fo...

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