Last year the International Labor
Organization (ILO) has published its second assessment report on the scope of
the forced labor in the world for the purpose of economic and sexual
exploitation. I find the data very informative and impressive and now I will
present it and discuss it here.
For better
interpretation of the numbers I would like first to come with some
explanations. In the absence of reliable national statistics (only 4 countries
in the world have national statistics!) the methodology of the ILO is based on
“reported cases”, which inevitably makes the numbers conservative. The main
criterion for forced labor is the impossibility of the victims to decline it.
The questionnaire used is specifically targeted to minimize the probability for
untrue signals. Although the ILO has the national data, only regional data has
been published. The only reasonable explanation is political pressure on the
side of influential governments. With regional data each government can say the
problems do not concern its country. And more important – it is not under
pressure to undertake something against forced labor.
According to
the assessment nowadays there are about 20.9 millions victims of forced labor
i.e. true slaves in the world. 10% of them are exploited in the public sector
and 90% - in the private one. 22% of the victims (4.5 millions) are subject to
sexual exploitation, which is the number of the forced prostitutes i.e. of the
sex slaves in the world.
The number of
the world victims of forced labor is really big but the worst is that it is the
result of an increase of 70% of the same figure from the first assessment in
2005 – for seven years only! Back at
that time the number of the victims was 12.3 millions.
Worst is the
situation in the region compounding the Southeast European countries Albania,
Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Turkey and the former Soviet republics.
With 4.2 victims per 1 000 inhabitants this region has surpassed Africa, which
has 4 victims per 1 000 inhabitants. Best is the situation in the region of the
developed economies and of the European Union, where there is “only” 1.5 victim
per 1 000 inhabitants. The authors believe that the low rate is due to the
well-established control mechanisms. I do dispute however the praised
performance of this region and here I will deal more in detail with the figures
related to it.
First of all,
this is a region in which with exception of the USA slavery has been unknown
for centuries.
Second, this
is the region with the biggest growth of the slavery. In 2005 the number of the
slaves was 553 000, while in 2012 it was already 1.5 millions, which makes up
an increase of 171% for only 7 years! I claim that the actual increase is much
higher, because as evident from this blog we have in this region really the
best control mechanisms, unfortunately not for the slavery but for the slaves
and there is no way for the victims from the centralized organizations like the
Hungarian one to generate “reported cases”. Developed countries seem to mean
well developed, organized and covered slavery.
Now I would
like to go over to an important issue – the nationality of the victims in the
region.
From this blog
we have learned that the German authorities, while actively participating in
the slavery of the East European women, pursue the enslavement of German women.
This is confirmed by the official statistics (of BKA!) according to which half
of the few saved victims are German women. This is not because many Germans are
victims of forced prostitution but because the authorities barely pursue the
forced prostitution among foreign women. The same is true about the women from
the other developed economies.
On the other
hand, the number of foreign women from non-EU countries has dropped significantly
since the East European countries have become members of the EU. Facing an
abundance of women, obviously well exceeding the market demand, the authorities
gave preference to the women they can better control and exploit. The
authorities use the push of the redundant women as propaganda of their efforts
against sex slavery – like the case with the women from Nigeria is. Today with
the exception of the foreign women who are permanent residents of Germany
almost all visiting prostitutes and hence sex slaves are from Eastern
Europe.
Due to the
developed stage of the economies in the region the use of slave labor for
economic purposes is insignificant. The need for slave labor for US agriculture
is satisfied from South America. From the 553 000 slaves in the region in 2005
only 94 000 were exploited for economic purposes.
Now I will try
to estimate the number of the slavery victims from the new EU members. Due to
lack of information and in the awareness, that it is not true, I assume that
the percentage of the victims in all countries of the region is the same - 1.5
victims per 1 000 inhabitants. The population of the new EU members – also of
the countries of origination of the slavery is 97.7 millions. This gives a
number of the victims inside their own countries of 146 600.
The population
of the old EU members, which are countries of destination or to put it bluntly,
the big slave markets, is some 403.4 millions. For these countries I assume the
percentage of the East European slaves to be 90%, which makes up 1.35 victims
per 1 000 inhabitants or 544 600. We get
a number of the slaves from the new EU members within the EU of 691 200! The EU
is the biggest sex slave market in the world today. If its members had the same
co-operation within the other areas like in the human trade the EU would be
flourishing today, seriously.
In North
America we have a population of 311.5 million in the USA and 34.1 million in
Canada. For these countries I assume the percentage of the victims from the new
EU members to be only 20% - 0.3 victims per 1 000 inhabitants which gives 103
680 additional East European victims in these countries.
For Australia
(22.3 millions) I assign a percentage of only 10% - 0.15 victims per 1000
inhabitants or 3350 victims.
For Israel
(7.6 millions) I assign 50%, which makes 5720 victims.
I give 90% to
Switzerland (7.8 millions) and Norway (4.7 million) to get a number of the
victims there of 16 875.
My
calculations give an overall number of the slaves from the new EU members
exploited in the region of the developed economies and the EU of 833 575. I do not count the slaves from these
countries in other regions like the Middle East. I know that there are
Bulgarian sex slaves in Jamaica, I am sure that there are not only Bulgarian
slaves there and that there are slaves from our countries in all resort
destinations, controlled by the Americans but since I have no figures, I
discount them totally. I do not count the victims – both for sexual
exploitation and for their organs, in Kosovo.
833 575 out of
a total population of 97.7 million makes up more than 8.5 victims per 1 000
inhabitants. In reality these are 10 victims per 1 000 inhabitants or one
victim per 100 inhabitants! If we account for the aging structure of the
population in the new EU members, we will get not more than 10 – 15 women in
their fertile age out of these 100 inhabitants and at least 90% of our victims
are young women. This means roughly that even based on conservative statistics
one out of 10 young women from the new EU member states is a slavery victim!
This means, however, a quiet genocide for the population of the new EU members.
And whoever doubts the figures here should look
at the latest US report on human trade, where the total number of the slaves in
the world is much higher - 27 millions. The main source of the information –
CIA, knows best of all about human trade.
Clear sign for
the ongoing genocide is the fact that while the old EU member states consider
how to circumvent the EU rules to stem the migration from the new member
states, the EU and the slavery state Germany actively pursue the non-visa
regime with Russia – as result of the genocide the new members are already
short of young female slaves and the human traders are actively looking for new
sources of slaves.
The ILO statistics enables to discover the true ugly
nature of the processes going on in Eastern Europe disguised as
“democratization”, “transit to market economy”, “European unification” and
“freedom of movement”. The “transit to market economy” turned into robbery and
poverty, the “European unification” – to neocolonialism, the “democratization”
and “freedom of movement” – to human trade and actual slavery.
