Dec. 2 marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

CAIRO – 2 December 2020: On December 2, the world celebrates the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, which began in 1949, the date the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of Human Trafficking.

Celebrating this day aims to eradicate contemporary forms of slavery.

The United Nations has set examples of contemporary forms of slavery, which are human trafficking, sexual exploitation and the worst forms of child labor, forced marriage and forcible recruitment of children for use in armed conflicts.

According to the International Labor Organization, there are more than 40 million people worldwide who are victims of modern slavery.

More than 150 million children are exposed to child labor. This represents approximately 1 in 10 children worldwide.

In a report of a study prepared by a group of international organizations, especially what it called "modern slavery", about 71 percent of slaves are women and girls, and the rest are males.

The organizations defined modern slavery as the inability of individuals to confront the factors that lead to their exposure to exploitation such as threats, violence, coercion, deception, and the exploitation of physical energies.

There are more than 400,000 people in the United States living under "modern slavery," and there are about 136,000 others living the same conditions in Britain.