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# Confronting the root causes of forced labour: identity and discrimination
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/confronting-root-caus-2/
- Published: 2019-03-19T16:37:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-21T16:56:51.000Z
- Description: Social discrimination based on race, caste, gender and other factors is a crucial component of the forced labour equation.
- Author: Genevieve LeBaron
- Tags: Home, #Migrated, Confronting Root Causes Report, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 11:26, #ImagesUploaded, #appended-excerpt

> Poverty and labour exploitation disproportionately impact women, lower castes, and non-white and indigenous people.

Social discrimination based on race, caste, gender and other factors is a crucial component of the forced labour equation.