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UN slavery estimate raises question: Are 50 million people really enslaved today?

  • Written by Monti Datta, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
imageForced laborers lived in prison cells at one palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Kiki Cahyadi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

According to the United Nations, about 50 million people are enslaved worldwide.

The report, released Sept. 12, 2022, by the U.N.‘s International Labor Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the...

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