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The #MeToo movement is growing fast in India, where celebrities are joining in sharing stories of harassment and sexual violence on social media. Campaigners are hoping that the empowering #MeToo…

Survivors of bonded labor at a rock quarry in Tamil Nadu state are welcoming a stiff sentence for their former employers. It’s a rare victory in India, where campaigners say…

In September 2017, Indian police in Hyderabad uncovered a massive bride trafficking ring after a mother reported her 16-year old daughter had been ‘sold’ by her husband his his family…

Women in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad are being lured to work in the Middle East through promises of good jobs. Yet once they touch down they find that…

…India and the Philippines stranded and unpaid for months in Qatar. Amnesty accuses the company of using the kafala structure – which it describes as Qatar’s notorious sponsorship system that…

…Clothes Campaign (CCC), an alliance of labor unions and NGOs, interviewed 62 workers in six H&M supplier factories in Bulgaria, Turkey, India, and Cambodia. They discovered that none of the…

…in the cotton sector however. In total, 15 countries are still exploiting children for cotton including Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mali, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Benin,…

…Astami DNA India reports: As per the provisions of the welfare scheme of the state government, once she is enrolled for the Kanyashree project she would get Rs 750 per…

Thirty-eight-year-old Raghu Malleshappa Ballary is a college graduate who, along with 14 other men, was trapped in bonded labor on a ginger farm in India. The men, whose ages range…

…the largest donor, pledging 60% of overall funding, followed by Canada and Norway. Afghanistan, India, and Colombia were the top recipients. However, some countries receiving the largest amounts of anti-trafficking…