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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…

…between 2017 and 2019. A report by the India Child Protection Fund (ICPF), meanwhile, found a sharp rise in demand for child abuse videos on pornography sites in India—particularly during…

…in Hindi) and started fighting to change India’s law to better protect sex trafficking survivors, persevering despite meeting resistance. Today, Trishna co-leads ILFAT (Indian Leaders Forum Against Trafficking), a coalition…