In this episode, forced labor of Uyghurs in the Shinshong region and

Uyghurs transported across China to be held in forced labor is one of the most serious human rights issues of our time.

I speak with attorney Martina Vandenberg, founder and president of the Human Trafficking Legal

Center, an entity that uses strategic litigation to assist the victims

of these abuses.

But these types of crimes don't just occur in developing nations or totalitarian states.

An American diplomat and her Australian diplomat husband

who trafficked domestic workers from Ethiopia

and the wife would go to work and the husband who was retired would stay home and rape the domestic worker.

It is a debasement of our common humanity.

I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking, which must be called

by its true name modern slavery. The International Labour Organization estimates that tens of millions of people are being held in forced labour around the world.

That's an extraordinary and horrifying number.

In what parts of the world are the majority of these abuses occurring?

The ILO's numbers are estimates,

and so it's very difficult to know exactly how many people are held in forced labor around the globe,

but the ILO partnered with Walk Free, and their estimate is that the largest number of people held in forced labor are in India.

But this is not a problem isolated to one country.

We see forced labor all over the globe.

Forced labor of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region

and Uyigers transported across China to be held in forced labor

is one of the most serious human rights issues of our time. What's happening now to the Uyghurs

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