In the world, about 152 million children are victims of forced labor

19 September 2017, 12:07 | The Company 
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Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to the influence of modern slavery, amounting to almost 29 million, or 71 per cent of 152 million people.

Most women are used for sex tourism, and 88 percent of them are forced marriages.

Child labor is increasingly used in rural areas - 70 percent, another 17 percent work in the services sector, and 12 percent are forcibly employed in industry.

The Director General of the agency Guy Ryder argues that the world will not be able to achieve the goals of sustainable development unless we intensify efforts to combat these disasters.

He noted that only measures to prevent forced child labor will help to change this problem globally, it is practically impossible at the "artisanal" level.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", recently in France, street actions against government-planned labor reforms aimed at achieving greater flexibility in the labor market.

Источник: УРА-Информ