Nations Where Slavery is Most Prevalent

7. Benin:

Modern slavery in Benin involves around 80,000 slaves, mainly women and children trafficked into the sex trade, domestic work or forced labour. Children are trafficked into this country from Niger, Togo, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, and some women from other parts of Africa, are trafficked through Benin, mostly on the way to Europe. According to the International Organization for Migration, over 40,000 children are victims of trafficking. Most of the trafficked children work on cotton or cashew plantations or as servants in houses. Vudusi or ‘shrine slavery’ exist where young girls are forced to live in and care for shrines, where many are habitually sexually abused.

8. Ivory Coast:

Ivory Coast, a West African country is a source, transit and destination country for women and children who are victims of forced labour and sexual exploitation. Out of around 156,000 victims, some are children who end up in conditions of forced labour in agriculture, mining, fishing, construction and domestic work. Children are also forced to work as street vendors and shoe-shiners. Most of the victims are believed to have been trafficked both internally and from neighboring countries like Benin, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and Togo for forced domestic work and sexual exploitation.

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