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Philippine Star  "Modern slavery" Here’s another downside of the migrant worker phenomenon: many of those 10 million Filipinos overseas work under conditions likened to modern slavery.  Australia-based Walk Free Foundation released this week its 2016 Global Slavery Index, in which the Philippines ranked 19th among 167 countries in terms of absolute  number of people living in conditions of modern slavery, and 33rd in terms of proportion of the population. The study estimated that 401,000 Filipinos, most of them  working overseas, are trapped in modern slavery – up from 261,200 in the 2014 index, when the country ranked 103rd in terms of proportion of population.  The study, initiated in 2012 by Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest to draw global attention to the problem, estimated that 45.8 million people worldwide live in  modern slavery, with the greatest number – 18.35 million – residing in India and two-thirds of the total in the Asia-Pacific.  ...