Taps Coogan – December 6th, 2021

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Some 40.3 million people are still suffering under forms of modern day slavery and forced labor according to estimates from the by the Walk Free Foundation. India, China, Pakistan, and North Korea top the list, each with millions toiling in slave-like conditions, as the following chart from Statista reveals. Countries such as Eritrea, Burundi, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, South Sudan top the list on a per-capita basis.

Modern-day slavery largely consists of forced labor in sweatshops, debt-bondage, forced marriage, and sex trafficking, though outright slavery is still practiced in countries like Eritrea. For India, although debt-bondage and forced-marriage are technically illegal, they are still widespread in certain industries and communities. China, on the other hand, engages in state sponsored forced labor by religious and ethnic minorities, including forced organ harvesting of prisoners’ of conscience, all of which ‘woke’ Corporate America, whose supply chains were invariably transplanted to these countries to exploit their low wages, is ever so happy to overlook as it lectures the West about morals.

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