45m are living in slavery worldwide

Campaigners revise estimate of trafficking and debt bondage level.

45m are living in slavery worldwide

More than 45m people around the world are trapped in modern slavery, a third more than previously thought, a report has found.

They are being trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes or domestic servants or enslaved in debt bondage and compelled to toil away in factories and farms, according to the study.

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