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…counselings, I am trying to move forward in life.” The India Times reports on the 4 demands ILFAT is making of the Indian government: 1. Victim Compensation: Victim Compensation for…

…survivors who were stuck in shelters in West Bengal. She was trafficked to a brothel in the east Indian state when she was just 15. It has been three years…

Border guards in Bangladesh are painting the homes of suspected human and drug traffickers red in an effort to stop trafficking from villages to nearby northeast India. One guard said…

…migrant workers from India as they can earn higher wages working in industries such as construction and domestic work. But for those who are trafficked, getting back to India is…

…lodge a new complaint in civil court to force employers to pay. One worker from India, Bijoy, explained that he had to make the difficult decision to forego pursuing a…

In a rare victory, India has sentenced a trafficker to life behind bars for trafficking five boys into forced labor at a bangle factory. Campaigners say the ruling gives hope…

…told me to speak without fear. I felt better after that. I was no longer scared,” she said. But many child survivors of trafficking in India aren’t afforded child-friendly courts,…

…were the number one group of domestic workers who were trafficked by their employers. Mexico, the United States, India, and Colombia rounded out the top 5 home countries of trafficked…

“The parents usually tell me ‘no water, no daughter’,” said Hetu. The 42-year-old farm laborer in rural Bundelkhand in central India has been out of luck in finding a wife….

Rehana Begum has become the first survivor of forced labor in India to win full compensation — 180,000 Indian rupees ($2,600 USD) after a two-year legal battle. She spent three…