Search Results for: india

…financial compensation for not marrying off their daughters have already proven to be effective remedies against child marriage in India. However, these interventions must come in tandem with a tailored…

…For the first time, India’s National Crime Record Bureau’s 2015 report included data on human trafficking investigations, prosecutions, and convictions from the previous year. India, ranked on Tier 2, is…

…heavily Qatar’s economy relies on migrant labor: 95 percent of the small country’s total labor force is foreign, hailing largely from countries such as India, Nepal, and the Philippines. The…

…being made by the government but even they cannot do much until the people themselves rise up. –Raphae, India, score for country: 25 4)There have been formal and legal steps…

…we are seeing blockchain technology used to monitor fishing catches, satellites that help identify sites of modern slavery, and apps to prevent brick kiln workers in India from falling into…

Goal: President Obama announced an Executive Order to crack down on government contractors that had been accused of human trafficking. The executive order is a major step toward preventing human…

India is currently considering new legislation against human trafficking. But will the law do more harm than good? At once, some Indian victims of human trafficking have written postcards to…

…Bengal in 2017 (12.9% of India). The number was slightly less than 8,335 cases reported in 2016 (13.14% of India). Incidentally, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report published…

…the Responsible Sourcing Network explains: Turkmenistan exports the majority of its raw cotton to Turkey, Pakistan, India, and China, where the cotton eventually makes its way into many apparel products…

…Rights Lab, the world’s first large-scale research platform on modern slavery, is using satellites to locate child labor camps in Bangladesh and brick kilns in India – sites infamous for…