Illegal profits from forced labour and sexual exploitation has soared, says a UN body
ILLEGAL profits from forced labour worldwide have soared to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion (£185bn) a year, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported today.
Sexual exploitation is to blame for three-quarters of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money to send home, deprives legal workers of jobs and allows the criminals behind it to evade taxes, the United Nations agency said.
The ILO said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered by the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37 per cent, or $64bn (£50bn), compared with its last estimate published a decade ago.
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