1. There are around 3000 enslaved Albanian children used for begging and cleaning windows and cars without payment in Italy and Greece. (CRCA, The Vicious Circle, 2000)

2. An estimated 496,000 children are in slavery in Bangladesh. (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Report on National Sample Survey of Child Labour in Bangladesh, October 1996)

3. Over 10-20 million people are subjected to debt bondage largely in India, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Philippines. (Debt Bondage: The Challenge for the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, submission to the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)

4. Of 20 million bonded labourers in Pakistan 7.5 million are children. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)

5. Of 35 million soccer balls stitched in Pakistan, children produce one quarter of the balls, most of them as bonded servants. (Mary E. Williams, Child Labour and Sweat Shops, 1999, citing Sydney Schanberg, Life, 1 June 1996)

6. Nearly 500,000 minors work in virtual slavery conditions in Senegal. (Jorge Pi–a, "Italy to Help Vulnerable Children in Senegal," IPS World News, Rome, 29 May 2000)

7. "Restavek" the practice of sending children to serve as unpaid domestic labour for more affluent city dwellers exist in the country of Haiti. UNICEF estimated that 25,000 to 300,000 children, 85% of them girls, are victims of this practice. (US Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1999)

8. Information gathered by the British charity, Christian Aid, and reported by Reuters, indicates that up to 10,000 children between ages 6 and 14 are enslaved in brothels in Sri Lanka. (CATW, Child Sex Tourism is Flourishing in Sri Lanka, Coalition Report, 1997)

9. There are no universally accepted figures for the number of bonded child labourers in India. However, in the carpet industry alone, human rights organisations estimate that there may be as many as 300,000 children working, many of them under conditions that amount to bonded labour. (US Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1999)

10. Some NGOs estimate that the number of bonded labourers in India is 5 million persons. However, in a report released during the year, Human Rights Watch estimated that 40 million persons, including 15 million children, are bonded labourers. The report notes that the majority of bonded labourers are Dalits, and that bondage is passed from one generation to the next. (US Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1999)

11. 90% of the 100,000 women in prostitution in Bombay, India, are indentured slaves. (CATW Fact Book, citing Robert I. Friedman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption are Leading to an AIDS Catastrophe," The Nation, 8 April 1996)

12. Persons sometimes are sold into virtual slavery. Many boys from India, some of whom are as young as 4 years, end up as riders in camel races in West Asia and the Gulf States, especially to the United Arab Emirates, or begging during the Haj. Girls and women end up either as domestic workers or sex workers. (US Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1999)

13. It takes up to 15 years for girls held in prostitution via debt-bondage in India to purchase their freedom.

(Robert I. Friedman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption are Leading to an AIDS Catastrophe," The Nation, 8 April 1996)

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