The victims of the new slavery .. 40 million in the world and half a million in Arab countries

Despite the prohibition of slavery throughout the world, it remains one of the most important problems facing humanity through its continuation in a new style called modern slavery.

A joint report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Free Walking Association and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) this year estimated the number of slaves in the world this year at 40 million, most of them women and children.

He explained that five people out of every thousand are victims of contemporary slavery, which "spread in areas of war and conflict, and increase in the economically developed countries as well."

Contemporary slavery is defined as the "inability of individuals to face exploitation such as threats, violence, coercion, deception, exploitation of physical energies and forced marriage."

According to the report, the continent of Africa is at the top in terms of slavery rates: 7.6 per 1,000, followed by Asia and the Pacific, followed by Europe and Central Asia, followed by the Arab States by 3.3 per thousand, followed by North and South America.

According to the report, the number of slaves in the modern concept in the Arab countries about 529 thousand individuals at the rate of 1% of the total number of slaves in the world.

Slaves are spread in 11 Arab countries, mainly Syria and the United Arab Emirates, where 67% of them are forced laborers and 33% are forced marriages.

On the other hand, countries that suffer from wars and conflicts such as Syria embrace about 76% of the total number of slaves in the Arab countries.

There are also contemporary cases of slavery in Thailand, North Korea's mineral sector, cocoa production in Ivory Coast, cattle farms in Brazil and car-washing in Britain.