vastly important story the definitely definitely will never get the same amount of air time as sean spicer sammy appearance or the alleged trumped russia collusion election election meddling celebrity gossip well it's just the you know the new global slavery figures and statistics released this week by the united nations international labor organization and the walk free foundation you know those which found that there is an estimated forty point three million people are victims of modern slavery in two thousand and sixteen now see modern slavery is used as a sort of umbrella term that according to researchers refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats of violence coersion deception and or abuse of power. there's obviously includes forced labor forced marriage and . in a press release adam forrest chairman and founder of the walk from day she stated if we consider the results of the last five years for which we have collected about eighty nine million people experience some form of modern slavery for periods of time ranging from a few days to by