The International Labour Organization’s report Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour [Full report] (Executive Summary) was just published and garners international attention.

Forced labour is any work or services which people are forced to do against their will under the threat of some form punishment. AntiSlavery.org

Sadly, no comment on two types of Slave Labor that 49% of humanity (men) are exposed to or threatened by.

Military Conscription fits the definition of Forced Labour or Slave Labour

Conscription is the term given to any involuntary labour called upon by an authority. Historically, conscription has been used to define people going into the armed forces of a country during wartime. Where it is still practised, it is usually only for a fixed period and euphemistically referred to as something far nicer, like "national service" or the "draft." [Source]

Life Long mandatory inescapable alimony obligation

fits the definition of Forced Labour or Slave Labour

Family court practice to imprison men into debtor’s prison for not paying mandatory life long support to an ex wife, even if she cohabitates with a new boy friend fits the description of slavery

Conscription for Military Service = Slavery

Military Service fits that description of slavery so perfectly that Wikipedia makes a special exception for it.

Unfree labour (or Unfree labor in American English) is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), lawful compulsion,[1] or other extreme hardship to themselves or to members of their families. [Wikipedia Unfree Labour]

Again, this perfectly describes compulsory military service.

Unlike feminists who exaggerate their victimhood, men make an explicit exception for their inescapable obvious military slavery:

However, under the Forced Labour Convention the term forced or compulsory labour shall not include:

any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character; [Wikipedia Unfree Labour]

Here we are. Forced military labor, under the threat of imprisonment or death is just re-defined as non-forced labor, not slavery. [Conscription Is Slavery: Counter Arguments] So the forced life endangering slave labor of millions of men is re-defined as not being forced labor.

Lifetime Alimony = Slavery

If we re-define mandatory forced life long alimony as a normal civic obligation, we can define away alimony debt slavery of a man condemned to pay life long monthly alimony to his ex wife. Even if alimony payment is enforced by often decade long debtor’s prison

Another exception to slavery is Penal Labour

any work or service exacted from any person as a consequence of a conviction in a court of law,

is another exception. OK. Forced labor for murderers, robbers, forcible rapists etc is not slavery. That is fair. But, be aware of the efforts to ban forced labor of prisoners

This post was inspired by the report of the International Labour Organization of Forced Labour. Which sadly omits the two forms of forced labour most men in this world are exposed to.

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