At an SMU human trafficking seminar, Indonesian mother Ms Tata (not her real name) shared her story on how she was forced to work as a sex worker in Geylang for about a month. The International Labour Organization has estimated that 20.9 million people were in forced labour in 2012, with 4.5 million sexually exploited, 14.2 million exploited for labour and 2.2 million in state-imposed forced labour. In the Asia-Pacific region, 11.7 million are estimated to be in forced labour. Singapore is considered a destination country, but experts at the seminar on Friday – presented by SMU and the Singapore Inter-Agency Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons – said that trafficking was a concern for every country.