According to estimates, between 21 and 45 million people are currently enslaved in one way or another. Sometimes it is referred to as human trafficking, and other times as modern-day slavery. It is fundamentally enslavement at all times.

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, housing, or reception of people for inappropriate purposes, such as forced labor or sexual exploitation, via improper tactics (such as force, abduction, deception, or coercion) is known as human trafficking. Today, it can take a variety of shapes.

Domestic Servitude:

Live-in help is an apparently common practice known as domestic servitude, which is actually a cover for the exploitation and control of a person, usually from another nation. It is a sort of forced labor, but because of the particular situations and difficulties it poses, it also deserves to be classified as slavery.

Domestic slavery victims may initially appear to be nannies or other domestic assistance, but the instant their job arrangement changes to the point at which they are unable to leave of their own free will, it is a situation of enslavement.

Sex Trafficking:

False promises are a common tactic used by traffickers to lure both adults and children and imprison them. Since most members of indigenous groups and those who live in extreme poverty are disadvantaged economically and politically and lack access to fundamental amenities like education, they are especially vulnerable to sex trafficking.

Traffickers frequently promise their victims freedom when they settle their debt in order to keep them under their control. The victims’ “debt” is allegedly incurred through their hiring, transportation, maintenance, or even their clumsy “sale.” Consequently, sex trafficking may take place inside financial bondage or bonded labor. Eventually, sex trafficking victims might not only be forced sex workers but also carry out other tasks. Some traffickers recruit or transfer additional victims using sex trafficking victims.

Forced labor:

A variant of slavery known as forced labor, which involves both sexual exploitation and labor capture, affects an estimated 20.9 million people. Forced labor is most similar to historical American slavery since it is unpaid, frequently physical, and coercive. All other forms of slavery, such as domestic servitude, child labor, bonded labor, and forced sex, are subsets of forced labor. People are subjected to coercive labor tactics by state authorities, businesses, and private persons in order to make money or gain from their labor.

The form of slavery utilized to create a large number of the products in our global supply networks is forced labor. Forced labor is most common in the fishery, textile, construction, mining, and agriculture industries. 90% of the world’s forced laborers are exploited by the private sector, which consists of companies and people looking to make a profit, making the desire to make a profit the main driving force behind the system of slavery.

Bonded labor:

Bonded labor, sometimes referred to as debt bondage and peonage, occurs when individuals sell their freedom as collateral for a loan or when they inherit a debt from a relative. It can be set up to look like an employment contract, but the worker begins with a debt to pay back and discovers that it is difficult to do so after working under typically harsh conditions. Then their servitude becomes unbreakable.

This obligation is frequently carried down from one generation to the next, which makes it uncannily reminiscent of chattel slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. It happens all over the world when employers demand that workers’ children work in the same conditions as their parents in order to pay off their parents’ debt, or when parents or other family members pass away and employers demand a replacement worker to take over the vacant position, all under the guise of a debt owed.

Child labor:

More than a quarter of all slaves in the world today are kids. These children are either coerced into a system of domestic servitude, forced into commercial sex acts, or forced into jobs that are bad for their morals, bodies, and minds.

Some of the main drivers of child labor include supply constraints and industrial demands for low-cost, unskilled labor. Children are employed in particular in production processes that demand physical characteristics like agility and small height. Additionally, suppliers are compelled by pricing constraints to select the most affordable labor, particularly those at the top of the supply chain.

Forced marriage:

Statistics on forced marriage differ because most of them are frequently informal and unrecorded unions. Over 51 million girls under the age of 18 were predicted to be forcibly married in 2003 by the International Center for Research on Women. The majority of forced and young marriages occur in underdeveloped nations in South Asia, Africa, and former Soviet republics. However, in wealthier North American and European nations, there are still instances of forced and young marriage.