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…that the more than 17,000 women and girls trafficked every year to India alone are usually forced into sex work, circus work, domestic servitude and are targeted for organ harvesting….

Earlier this year, India’s Supreme Court officially defined sex work as a profession, calling for an end to police violence against sex workers, and for greater labor protections. This ruling…

…states with at least 83% of workers in the region being migrants. In Kuwait for example, 90% of domestic workers come from Bangladesh, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Domestic…

…Indian students, who had stopped attending classes at Greenwich, Chester, and Teesside universities shortly after arriving in the U.K., working in exploitative conditions in the care sector in Wales. They…

In early 2022, a video circulated on social media of a trafficking victim from Punjab, a state in northern India, pleading for help: “I have been held captive in Cyprus…

…coronavirus crisis. In India, the world’s largest lockdown has seen over a billion people forced to stay inside and—in cases where the workplace also provided accommodation—caused many informal migrant workers…

…excluded from anti-trafficking movement Progress stalls on sex workers’ rights in India Freedom United stands firmly against trafficking for sexual exploitation and all forms of modern slavery. Different policy approaches…

…their jobs due to recruitment fees which are likely illegal. One woman from south India who went to work in a Manchester-based care home under a government initiative aiming to…

…terrifying new virus. Ten percent of the world’s PVC comes from the Uyghur Region, mostly from Zhongtai, and from there, PVC resin is then transported to eastern China, India, and…

India’s Supreme Court has officially defined sex work as a profession, calling for an end to police violence against sex workers, and for greater labor protections. This ruling expanding the…