Quthing — At the age of 15 and with no money for school shoes or a uniform, Linda* was forced to accept that her education was over and it was time to look for a job.
The majority of victims are in Asia (11.7 million), but a growing number are in Africa, which has an estimated 3.7 million people in forced labour. The publication of the 2012 report comes 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery of Africans in the United States.
