*Edited by Oluwatoyin Olatundun Ilesanmi*

More than 46 million people are currently victims of 21st-century slavery globally, most of whom are women and children. This book, *21st Century Slavery - The Various Forms of Human Enslavement in Today's World* provides a comprehensive overview of modern-day slavery, also known as contemporary slavery, neo-slavery, institutional slavery, and numerous other terms. It includes eight chapters that highlight human trafficking and explain and explore the act of recruiting, harbouring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labour or commercial sex acts using force, fraud, or coercion. The book discusses the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, and receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labour or sexual exploitation. It concludes that the world must not accept slavery in the 21st century. This volume is a useful resource on modern slavery for all academics interested in humanitarian and development studies across the globe and to all policymakers and governments of nations who are pushing for the elimination of all forms of slavery in their nationhood.

> *Usha Iyer-Raniga, Sustainable Development Series Editor*

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21st Century Slavery - The Various Forms of Human Enslavement in Today's World

IntechOpen Series

Sustainable Development, Volume 10

21st Century Slavery

The Various Forms of Human Enslavement

in Today's World

*Edited by Oluwatoyin Olatundun Ilesanmi*