Four years ago, the labor agency estimated that more than twelve million people were in some form of forced labor.

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First,people in forced labor situations receive wages that are lower, sometimes far lower, than the market rate.

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Huge companies might not use forced labor, but they might work with smaller ones that do.

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Around fifty-six percent of people in forced labor are women and girls.

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Why would people take a chance on getting involved with forced labor?

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Activists say some cases of modern slavery involve forced labor in agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Most countries have laws that make forced labor a serious crime.

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A new report estimates the cost of forced labor.

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Policy Officer at the ILO's Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor Beate Andrees says migrant workers see themselves as risk-takers.

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Plant says this definition, which first appeared in a 1930 ILO Convention Against Forced Labor, is still valid today.

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He says most forced labor is in the private economy, and it is usually for several months or years.

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While lifetime cases of forced labor, slavery and bonded labor do exist, he says they are the exception.

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Anti-slavery advocates say the worst aspects of forced labor can be lessened if people are made aware of the harm it inflicts.

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More often than not, laws that exist to protect people against forced labor are not enforced.

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But according to Musabih, those wonderful jobs often lead these women into forced labor and prostitution.

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Plant says every single country in the world is encountering problems of forced labor.

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And at least $21 billion is made from all other forms of forced labor.

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Roger Plant heads the International Labor Organization's special action program to combat forced labor.

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"You are in a forced labor situation when you enter work or service,".

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"However,despite this widespread support for, and awareness of the rights of the child, there persist severe violations, including violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, child trafficking and forced labor,"

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Clinton called the trafficking of persons for forced labor,sexual exploitation and other illicit purposes "modern-day" slavery that spans the globe and affects every country including the United States.

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Apart from the severe human rights violations, Plant says,the profits pocketed by traffickers represent lost tax revenues to the States, as well as lost earnings stolen from the victims of forced labor and trafficking.

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"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

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This video by the Department of Homeland Security shows that anyone,at any age can be a victim of human trafficking - forced into labor or prostitution.

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