The report indicated that some 600,000 migrant workers are subject to forced labour and exploitation.
In Jordan and Lebanon migrant workers make up a significant part of the workforce, particularly in the construction and domestic work sectors, the study said.
A report prepared by the ILO showed the highest rates of human trafficking were registered in the Middle East. Many times the employees are routinely deceived regarding their living and working conditions. A lack of an inspection mechanism makes workers more vulnerable to mistreatment.
There are typically two different forms of recruitment for forced labor, voluntary recruitment and unfree recruitment. Unfree recruitment is usually split between three categories including deception about the nature of the work, deception about the working and living conditions, and deception about the legality and the existence of the job.
Of all of the countries in the Americas, Brazil imported the most slaves from Africa and was the last to officially abolish slavery.
In 2002, the ILO and the Brazilian government initiated a technical cooperation project called “Combating Forced Labour”. Since then, around 50,000 workers have been freed from slave-like conditions in Brazil.
Although slavery has been abolished for years, forced labor has since taken its place. In a recent report, 240 Brazilian companies were caught employing people in slave-like conditions between May 2013 and May 2015. The companies were associated with clothing sweatshops, farming and cattle ranching, timber and charcoal production, and construction. These people work seven days a week without pay and had no running water or toilets