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Marking National Domestic Workers Day, Ambassador Shorter speaks at the International Domestic Workers Day…

India has ratified two significant global agreements to fight child slavery, and thus committed the country to better international labor standards regarding employment of children.  These laws will also subject the country to more scrutiny by other nations. India’s census found there were more than four million laborers aged between five and 14 in 2011 […]

Tahmina was just 13 when her own sister sold her into marriage with a man 30 years her senior. The pricetag? 50,000 rupees (£557). Tahmina had travelled by bus, train, and car with her sister and brother-in-law, thinking they were heading to Delhi. Instead, she was taken to a remote village in Haryana and sold into […]

Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the coming weeks during the monsoon session of parliament. However, as Prabha Kotiswaran, a lecturer in Criminal Law at King’s College London, explains, the The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2018 has several weaknesses that need […]

Reports of forced labor in the lead up to the Qatar World Cup have been in the headlines for years, but the problem of migrant worker exploitation extends far beyond building stadiums. As the Middle East attempts to gain more manpower, recruitment agencies are turning to Africa. Thousands of African migrant workers are already in […]

According to Reuters, thousands of activists came together in southern India on Monday.  The event they were attending may well be the world’s most massive march against trafficking and sexual abuse of children.  Estimates of these sorts of crimes are rising. “Organised by Nobel Laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, over 10 million people […]

Three former bonded laborers were elected to village councils in the past week, a turn of events described by experts as “a game-changer” for millions in India who are victims of labor trafficking and debt bondage. Kudumula Devamma, 40, spent twenty years fishing in repayment of loans received by her father-in-law and husband. She was […]

NEW DEHLI, India — The World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) honors three heroes of children’s rights each year and one will receive a $50,000 grant. Kailash Satyarthi works to free child slaves in India…

India has an ambitious goal to free more than 18 million people who are trapped in bonded labor by 2030. Yet it has yet to pay full compensation to anyone rescued from bonded labor since introducing new policies in 2016. By law freed workers are eligible for grants of up to 300,000 rupees ($4,458). Part […]

Britain’s largest department store, John Lewis, has joined a program to provide jobs to hundred of survivors of modern slavery, joining cosmetics company The Body Shop and mobile phone and electrical firm Dixons Carphone. The employment program, “Bright Future”, was launched last year and offers survivors of modern slavery four-week paid work placements that can lead to a […]