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Forced Labor is universally condemned. Yet the elimination of its numerous forms - old and new, ranging from slavery and debt bondage to trafficking in human beings - remains one of the most complex challenges facing local communities, national governments, employers' and workers' organizations and the international community. Tackling this denial of human freedom calls for multidimensional solutions to address the disparate forms that forced labor takes. Stopping forced labor is the second Global Report issued under the International Labor Organization's (ILO) new promotional tool, the follow- up to the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. The Report looks closely at the myriad forms of forced labor found in the world today and the various responses to them, with the aim of mobilizing greater support for their eradication. It closes by proposing a specific programme of action for discussion and approval by ILO constituents that strives for a holistic approach to eliminating this terrible practice.