Learn about today's forms of slavery and abolition.

Slavery Today

Learn about the different forms and manifestations of modern-day slavery.

Find out how people like you are taking bold steps to fight slavery today.

See the lives affected by slavery in the 21st century.

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Slavery is outlawed in every country in the world, and yet it still persists in many forms.

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Domestic Servitude

Employees working in private homes are forced or coerced into serving and/or fraudulently convinced that they have no option to leave.
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Sex Trafficking

Women, men or children that are forced into the commercial sex industry and held against their will by force, fraud or coercion.
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Forced Labor

Human beings are forced to work under the threat of violence and for no pay. These slaves are treated as property and exploited to create a product for commercial sale.
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Bonded Labor

Individuals that are compelled to work in order to repay a debt and unable to leave until the debt is repaid. It is the most common form of enslavement in the world.
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Child Labor

Any enslavement — whether forced labor, domestic servitude, bonded labor or sex trafficking — of a child.
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Forced Marriage

Women and children who are forced to marry another without their consent or against their will.