14-year-old pregnant girl, 23, others rescued from being trafficked to Cote D'Ivoire - Adomonline.com

A 14-year-old girl, who is pregnant and 15 other children, have been rescued from being trafficked from the Central Region to Cote d’Ivoire.

The children, according to rescuers, were being trafficked into forced labour and forced marriages.

Eight of the children, he said were rescued through the organization’s conventional approaches, while 16 others were rescued on Ghana’s borders with its neighboring countries.

According to him, the children rescued were made up of six girls and 18 boys, with one of the girls being pregnant at the age of 14 years.

 A new data from the International Labor Organization (ILO), Walk Free Foundation (WFF), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), shows that 49.6 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, almost 10 million more than the previous global data on the issue.

Of the figure, 28 million of them were in forced labor, while 22 million were trapped in forced marriages, with over 26.7 million of them being females.

The report did not isolate those found in forced labor, although there is evidence to show that there are over 20,000 children in forced labor on Lake Volta alone.