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Every day, millions of children in India wake up with nothing to look forward to except hours of back-breaking labor working everywhere from stone quarries to carpet factories to rice…

…partners, SumofUs and World Uyghur Congress for continuing the protests that began in New York last month. The Times of India reports, Further, many speakers denounced the complicity of multinational…

Kashmir makes international headlines for being a conflict zone lying between India and Pakistan. Less reported is that the Kashmiri capital of Srinagar has become a hub for modern slavery….

Do you think India should give sex workers rights and aid, or just aid? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! “I need work, not aid.” – Mumtaz, sex worker…

…only sometimes will she give me a small part of the money I’ve earned.” The Guardian reports: In the Sundarbans, on the border between India and Bangladesh, severe cyclones have…

…the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian children are more vulnerable than ever to labor trafficking. Indian authorities have reported an increase in children rescued from child labor in 2020-2021 compared to the…

…marry against her will. She’s now become a poster girl for campaigning against forced child marriage in her village. The Times of India reports: “Only the girl is on the…

Tea giant Twinings has published a list of Indian tea plantations that it buys from following pressure to increase transparency in an industry rife with labor abuses. The move comes…

Grain banks are opening their doors to more than 5,000 homes across northern India in a move to prevent families from falling into debt bondage. During the monsoon season, when…

India’s newly proposed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 is coming under fire for its lack of adherence to international labor standards and over-reliance on criminalization as…