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…India, Pakistan, Turkey, Brazil, Nepal, the Philippines, Kosovo, Iran, and former Soviet states in eastern Europe.1 Alarmingly, globally only seven countries have passed legislation to combat these horrific crimes.2 Today,…

Credit: Courtesy of CNA and The Moving Visuals Co. Watch ‘The Ugly Side of Beauty’ here. “Three years ago I got a loan from a money lender of 4,100 Indian…

…Fremont, Calif. was paying its L-1 workers from India just $1.21 an hour to install their computer and network systems. Many were working over 100 hours per week. If migrants…

…Constructions of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814–1926”. In Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History 1800–2000, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen, 1–33. New Delhi: Macmillan….

…legal aid and resources to deal with their trauma, on top of threats and intimidation from their traffickers.   For example, in India the majority of victims of forced and…

…peonage. In a modern context, India’s Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act of 1976 provides a good example of the wide range of measures that are commonly intended to be used…

…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….

…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…