Global Slavery Index: 800 thousand people are in modern slavery in Russia

In Russia, 794 thousand people are in modern slavery, according to the Global Slavery Index for 2018. The authors of the rating are the Walk Free Foundation of the Australian philanthropist Andrew Forrest.

By modern slavery, the authors of the ranking understand human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage and any other relationship that violates the fundamental principle of equality and the universal right to freedom and dignity.

Although in terms of the spread of slavery (the ratio of slaves and free citizens), Russia ranked 64th, in terms of the quantitative indicator, the total number of slaves in the country, it entered the top ten countries.

The 10 countries with the largest number of slaves, according to the rating, are home to 60% of the total number of slaves in the world (in addition to Russia, these countries include India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Iraq, Indonesia, Congo and the Philippines).

In total, there are 40.3 million people in modern slavery in the world, compared with the 2016 report, the number of slaves in the world has decreased by five million people. In India, there are 8 million slaves per 1.3 billion people; in North Korea, every tenth person is a slave (population about 25 million people).

At the end of June, the US government published an annual ranking of human trafficking in 187 countries. Russia was at the bottom of the list for combating forced labor and the sex trade. “The Russian government does not meet the minimum standards for combating slavery and does not even make efforts to change,” the text of the report said (p. 362 of the document ).