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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 these children grew up in bonded labor at brick kilns, rice mills, and wood cutting units where their parents worked. As India steps up its […]
Two teenage sisters sold off as child brides in Kashmir to men more than three times their age last December are struggling to reclaim their lives back home. Their own parents betrayed them, allegedly selling them to their husbands in exchange for money. The elder sister was “bought” for Rs 60,000. The younger sister was able […]
Monster Beverage Corporation, which controls 43% of the U.S.’s energy drinks market, states that there is a “minimal risk” of slavery and human trafficking in its supply chain.[ref]https://www.monsterbevcorp.com/sr-transparency.php[/ref] We want to know: how can this be? Forced labor and human trafficking have been identified as serious problems in six of the largest sugarcane producing countries.[ref]https://knowthechain.org/wp-content/uploads/KTC-SugarcaneReport-Final_August-2017.pdf[/ref] Monster […]
The UK government received 1,196 reports of potential cases of forced marriage last year. The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), which handles the cases, says that more than a quarter involved victims under 18-years-old and 1 out of every 5 victims was male. The statistic shows a decrease in the total number of forced marriage cases compared […]
India has an ambitious goal to free more than 18 million people who are trapped in bonded labor by 2030. Yet it has yet to pay full compensation to anyone rescued from bonded labor since introducing new policies in 2016. By law freed workers are eligible for grants of up to 300,000 rupees ($4,458). Part […]
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 holiday. The problem is that many of these children never return to school after they start working. “In this season, playgrounds and neighbourhood shops become […]
Indians who work in the UK’s restaurant and hotel sector are at a greater risk of falling victim to modern slavery compared to other immigrants. A new report published by the Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) found that Indians are in the top 10 victim nationalities at risk of human trafficking and forced labor […]
Tebby Kaisara looked like any other student walking around campus at Indiana University with a backpack on her shoulder. But she wasn’t a student. Kaisara had been trafficked to the campus from Botswana, subjected to forced labor by an Indiana University graduate student. She suffered as a domestic servant for 18 months, during which time […]
Why do human trafficking cases take so long to proceed in Bangladesh’s courts? A lot it has to do with witness intimidation and bribery. In one case from 2007, four-and-a-half-year-old Ritu disappeared after her neighbor, a rickshaw driver named Huda Mia, asked her aunt if he could look after the girl for a bit. He promised to […]
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 time in the state, focusing on the link between child marriage and modern slavery. Until now there has been a “complete vacuum in the research space […]
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