Forced labour in the private economy generates $236 billion in illegal profits per year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reported from Geneva on Tuesday. The total amount of illegal profits from forced labour had risen by $64 billion, or 37%, since 2014, the ILO said. It described this as a “dramatic increase that has been fuelled by both a growth in the number of people forced into labour, as well as higher profits generated from the exploitation of victims.” Prostitution, or what the ILO describes as “forced commercial sexual exploitation,” accounted for 73% of the illegal profit…