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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…

…Krishnan says the problem is that India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is rarely used to prosecute traffickers despite it laying out lifetime prison sentence for those…

…slavery in India from space! Researchers are focusing on an area of Rajasthan in India where their experience tells them there is a lot of slavery in brick kilns. They…

Indian workers who have been rescued from bonded labor across Tamil Nadu’s brick kilns, rice mills, and factories are coming together to help others who are still trapped in forced…

…convictions for trafficking. Ministers have also pledged to give £3m to spot and tackle child labour and build capacity to end the practice in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.​ Ms Mordaunt…

…rice from India, and cheap toys from China are just three examples. 2 In March 2013, the Commonwealth Government announced a strategy to ensure that all goods and services supplied…

…India may be the Commonwealth’s most populous country, and one which suffers from high rates of forced child marriage and bonded labor, but it is far from the only Commonwealth…