Australia currently has around 41,000 modern slaves, which is twice the figure recorded five years ago, a human rights report has shown.
Walk Free, an international human rights group based in Perth has released the 2023 Global Slavery Index, raising the alarm about the state of modern slavery worldwide.
Modern slavery refers to situations in which individuals are subject to exploitation and cannot refuse or escape because of threat, coercion, violence, deception and abuses.
It includes forced labour, forced marriage, debt bond, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, exploitation of children and so on.
According to the report, 50 million people around the world lived in modern slavery on any given day in 2021, up 10 million from the previous report….