North Korea, Eritrea have highest rates of modern slavery - report
By Ellen Wulfhorst 1 day ago
NEW YORK, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North Korea and Eritrea have the world's highest rates of enslaved people, said a global survey released on Thursday that focused on the roles of conflict and government repression in modern slavery.
The Central African nation of Burundi also has a high prevalence of slavery, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index published by the human rights group Walk Free Foundation.
"Each of these three countries has state-sponsored forced labor, where their government puts its own people to work for its own benefit," said Fiona David, research chair of Minderoo Foundation, which led the data collection.
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A whole lot of those refugees coming through are from Eritrea.
This would be an interesting subject to read more on, slavery in these countries.
