A/72/139 more likely to be in precarious situations of employment and are overrepresented within clerical and service-based roles. 35 39. The negative impacts of these socioeconomic trends on women contribute significantly to their increased vulnerability to contempor ary forms of slavery. Women are overrepresented in the 21 million people estimated by ILO to be enslaved, accounting for around 55 per cent of victims. 36 The Special Rapporteur has seen the vulnerability of women and girls when making country visits, even when the context and modalities of contemporary forms of slavery differ significantly. For example, when she visited north-east Nigeria in February 2016 with the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, she heard first -hand from children who were trafficked, enslaved and forced into domestic and sexual servitude by Boko Haram. Many of the girls had children after they were forced to marry their abductors, but are ostracized for suspected radicalization and their children are despised for being of “bad blood”. 37 In April 2016, when she visited El Salvador, she received information about women and girls enslaved by gangs, threatened with extreme violence in order to make them comply with heinous forms of sexual exploitation and women working as home-based workers, performing embroidery work for companies under oppressive conditions to meet quotas and targ ets in order to be paid. 38 In addition, when she visited the Niger, she received information about women and girls, often of slave descent, who were subject to forced and servile marriage through the wahaya, or fifth wife, practice. 39 C. 2030 Agenda and slavery eradication efforts: a historic opportunity 40. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents an opportunity for the international community to respond to these socioeconomic trends and increase development efforts to tackle contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences. The 2030 Agenda goes far beyond the Millennium Development Goals, both in relation to contemporary forms of slavery and a more generalized respect for, and promotion of, human rights principles and frameworks. Given the extent to which Goals were able to influence the sustainable development discourse and the mobilization of resources, these advancements have great potential. It is in this respect that the 2030 Agenda represents a historic opportunity that Member States, the international community, the business community and other stakeholders must seek to maximize. 41. The first way in which the 2030 Agenda improves upon the Millennium Development Goals in relation to contemporary forms of slavery is its inclusion of target 8.7, “take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldi ers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms”. The issue of contemporary forms of slavery was not a priority at the beginning of the three -year consultative process that preceded the adoption of the Goals and, as discussed above, was not included in the Millennium Development Goals. Its inclusion as a specific target followed sustained advocacy efforts, initiated in 2007, by a number of actors. The Special Rapporteur commends these efforts and the responsiveness of the consultative process in this __________________ 35 36 37 38 39 17-11988 ILO, World Employment Social Outlook; see also E/CN.6/2017/3. ILO, World Employment Social Outlook. See A/HRC/32/32/Add.2. See A/HRC/33/46/Add.1. See A/HRC/30/35/Add.1. 13/21