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…Onkar Sharma, India’s deputy chief labor commissioner, says only a handful of convictions have taken place since India banned bonded labor in 1976. Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign…

…were the most at risk, followed by migrant workers from Romania, Poland, China, Sudan, and India. The GLAA reports notes that Indian workers commonly work in the hotel and restaurant…

As India’s schools begin a two-month break, anti-trafficking campaigners are warning that traffickers are going after impoverished school children, recruiting them to work in factories and on farms over the…

…and Shafiqul Islam. When the police caught them, they confessed that they had intented to sell Ritu to traffickers who would take her to India. The accussed appeared in a…

Officials in the the Indian state of Maharashtra are warning that child brides are being trafficked for sexual exploitation and domestic slavery. New research is being conducted for the first…

A survivor of sex trafficking, Lilufa Bibi, had hoped that the Indian parliament would finally enact a new anti-trafficking law that could help thousands trapped in modern slavery. After multiple…

…Krishnan says the problem is that India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is rarely used to prosecute traffickers despite it laying out lifetime prison sentence for those…

…slavery in India from space! Researchers are focusing on an area of Rajasthan in India where their experience tells them there is a lot of slavery in brick kilns. They…

Indian workers who have been rescued from bonded labor across Tamil Nadu’s brick kilns, rice mills, and factories are coming together to help others who are still trapped in forced…

…convictions for trafficking. Ministers have also pledged to give £3m to spot and tackle child labour and build capacity to end the practice in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.​ Ms Mordaunt…