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…underage workers and unsafe, unhealthy working conditions are part and parcel of daily working life in Indian quarries. India is the largest global producer of granite, accounting for 49% of…

Thomson Reuters Foundation Long lists of those awaiting organs has prompted black market trade in India. “Indian police are investigating a major organ trade racket after they arrested two men,…

…they arrive here. Help for Indian workers in distress will be a phone call away.” “Government figures show there are some 6 million Indian migrants in the six Gulf states…

In the last year, illegally mining sand has accounted for at least two deaths in western India, according to Reuters. Government officials will soon offer alternative employment for men who…

…pressure that leaders in India cannot ignore. Call on the Indian Parliament to immediately pass the “Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill ” and end child slavery in India….

…plantations of Assam, India. Why is this happening? The short answer* is that workers in Assam are trapped in a unique situation of terrible poverty making them vulnerable to the…

…India vulnerable to trafficking and modern slavery. These stories have most recently been reported across estates owned by Amalgamated Plantations (APPL) – a company whose biggest shareholder is Tata Global…

…left many vulnerable to criminals who deceivingly promise a better life. Criminal gangs in Nepal dupe impoverished women and girls into working as slaves in urban homes in neighboring India,…

On Raksha Bandhan, the celebration honoring brothers and sisters, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi received an emotional letter from an unnamed survivor of human trafficking. The two-page letter, delivered to…

…to reach India where her agent said a dance tutor’s job awaited her. Days later she was sold to a brothel in the western Indian city of Pune in Maharashtra…