Asia and Asia Pacific are responsible for 41% of the global estimate of child labor with the majority of child laborers (38%) being made up of 5 to 11 year olds.
(Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, 2016)
In the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, the US Department of State claimed migrant workers working in Malaysia on agricultural and palm oil plantations are subjected to labor practices indicative of forced labor, such as restrictions on movement, withholding of wages, contract substitution, confiscation of passports and debt bondage.
Labor Abuses
Source: Wall Street Journal 2016