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Women working on Assam’s tea plantations in India earn a “pitiful” $2 a day and live in “appalling” conditions according to a new report released by the British charity Traidcraft…

…calling for urgent legislation to monitor unregulated employment agencies to prevent them from withholding salaries and using violence against workers. Take action against domestic slavery in India. ¹http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/fathers-death-brought-her-to-delhi-says-murdered-domestic-helps-brother-5185960/ ²http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-body-of-16-yr-old-domestic-help-found-chopped-to-pieces-in-drain-5184720/ ³http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-body-of-16-yr-old-domestic-help-found-chopped-to-pieces-in-drain-5184720/…

Social workers helping Indian children who were rescued from bonded labor are finding that drawings produced by these kids are giving them insight into the trauma they experience. Many of…

…cases last year were Pakistan (439 cases), Bangladesh (129), Somalia (91) and India (82). Notably, only 120 cases had no overseas element, meaning the forced marriage took place within the…

…Onkar Sharma, India’s deputy chief labor commissioner, says only a handful of convictions have taken place since India banned bonded labor in 1976. Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign…

…were the most at risk, followed by migrant workers from Romania, Poland, China, Sudan, and India. The GLAA reports notes that Indian workers commonly work in the hotel and restaurant…

As India’s schools begin a two-month break, anti-trafficking campaigners are warning that traffickers are going after impoverished school children, recruiting them to work in factories and on farms over the…

…and Shafiqul Islam. When the police caught them, they confessed that they had intented to sell Ritu to traffickers who would take her to India. The accussed appeared in a…

Officials in the the Indian state of Maharashtra are warning that child brides are being trafficked for sexual exploitation and domestic slavery. New research is being conducted for the first…

A survivor of sex trafficking, Lilufa Bibi, had hoped that the Indian parliament would finally enact a new anti-trafficking law that could help thousands trapped in modern slavery. After multiple…