By far the largest share of the US$236 billion a year in illegal profits comes from forced commercial sexual exploitation.
Nearly 24 million people work involuntarily in all regions of the world, generating almost a quarter-trillion dollars a year in illegal profits for traffickers and criminals particularly in Europe and Central Asia.
The figures from an International Labor Organization report on Tuesday.indicate that as much as US$236 billion a year in illegal profits come from the work of 23.7 million people doing involuntary jobs. The dollar figure is equal to Myanmar's GDP in 2023, or Qatar's GDP in 2022.
Football's governing body will mark the 100th anniversary of the World Cup in Uruguay, where the first was held in 1930.
The U.N. agency's first global guidance urges governments to quickly regulate generative AI in education and research.
It suggests most jobs are only partly exposed to automation, and are more likely to be complemented than substituted.
Education Cannot Wait said Afghan girls are the "furthest behind" in efforts to erase poverty and reduce inequality.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
