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Under India’s ancient social hierarchy system, Dalits – who are considered to be at the bottom of the caste system – continue to work for little or no pay in…

A BBC investigation this week uncovered claims of exploitation made by Indian factory workers that supply British supermarket chains Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Marks and Spencer, as well as fashion brand…

Child labor is surging in India as a result of the school closures enforced to prevent the spread of COVID-19. India’s rates of child labor were already among the highest…

…being exacerbated by COVID-19, we are actually losing the capacity to address the crime.” Ruchira Gupta, an anti-trafficking leader in India, said the situation for trafficking victims in her country…

…equipment—despite the fact the city is currently at the center of a new coronavirus outbreak. Vidhathri Matety posed as a student from India and was hired on the spot; another…

West Bengal is the centre of human trafficking for domestic slavery in India today. With no law pertaining to placement agencies in West Bengal, children and women continue to fall…

Almost every family in India’s big cities has a regular maid. The maid who cooks, cleans, takes care of the children, irons clothes and completes other household work. The ‘bai’…

…central Bristol was torn down and thrown into the harbor by protesters. Robert Milligan was another prominent British slave trader who founded West India Docks in the early 19th century,…

In a moving video report last week, the BBC revealed the staggering extent of India’s nationwide child trafficking network—a trade partly responsible for the disappearance of a shocking one child…

In an opinion piece last week for Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dalit rights activist Ritwajit Das and slavery expert Aidan McQuade warned that the coronavirus pandemic poses great risks to India’s…