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Global Slavery

Index India, China, Pakistan top list

CNN, HONG KONG
A new report, claiming to be the most comprehensive look at global slavery, says around 30 million people are living as slaves around the world.
The Global Slavery Index, published by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation, lists India with the most slaves (estimated near 14 million), followed by China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million).
The top 10 countries on its list of shame accounted for more than 75% of the 29.8 million people living in slavery, with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh completing the list.
Mauritania in West Africa topped the chart in terms of countries with the highest proportion of slaves (with about 4% of its 3.4 million people enslaved) followed by Haiti, Pakistan and Nepal.
The index, which draws on 10 years of research into slavery and was produced by a team of 4 authors supported by 22 other experts, is the product of Australian mining magnate and philanthropist Andrew Forrest's com-
mitment to stamp out global slavery.
It is the inaugural edition of what will be an annual report. It ranks 162 countries according to the number of people living in slavery, the risk of enslavement and the robustness of government responses to the problem.
Walk Free policy and research manager Gina Dafalia told CNN the report was intended to shine a spotlight on the issue, and quantify the extent of the problem in different countries before anti-slavery initiatives were launched.
So far, she said, Walk Free, along with partners Humanity United and the Legatum Foundation, had pledged a total of $100 million to stamp out the practice.
Dafalia explained the index had a higher estimate of the global number of slaves than other reports — International Labor Organization last year pegged the number at 20.9 million - because Global Slavery Index used a broader definition of slavery, which included human trafficking, forced labor, as well as practices such as forced marriage, debt bondage and the exploitation of children.
One of the report's authors and co-founder of Free the Slaves Kevin Bales rejected the suggestion that the term "slavery" was an overly emotive or misleading way of defining people who were trapped by crushing poverty.
"We're not talking about bad choices, we're not talking about crummy jobs in a sweatshop. We're talking about real life slavery - you can't walk away, you're controlled through violence, you're treated like property," he said.