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…they arrive here. Help for Indian workers in distress will be a phone call away.” “Government figures show there are some 6 million Indian migrants in the six Gulf states…

In the last year, illegally mining sand has accounted for at least two deaths in western India, according to Reuters. Government officials will soon offer alternative employment for men who…

…pressure that leaders in India cannot ignore. Call on the Indian Parliament to immediately pass the “Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill ” and end child slavery in India….

…plantations of Assam, India. Why is this happening? The short answer* is that workers in Assam are trapped in a unique situation of terrible poverty making them vulnerable to the…

…India vulnerable to trafficking and modern slavery. These stories have most recently been reported across estates owned by Amalgamated Plantations (APPL) – a company whose biggest shareholder is Tata Global…

…left many vulnerable to criminals who deceivingly promise a better life. Criminal gangs in Nepal dupe impoverished women and girls into working as slaves in urban homes in neighboring India,…

On Raksha Bandhan, the celebration honoring brothers and sisters, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi received an emotional letter from an unnamed survivor of human trafficking. The two-page letter, delivered to…

…to reach India where her agent said a dance tutor’s job awaited her. Days later she was sold to a brothel in the western Indian city of Pune in Maharashtra…

…Department notes that millions of victims in India are exploited by sex traffickers. Traffickers often promise chances for employment or marriage, only to then force them into prostitution. India has…

Thousands of workers in India’s textile industry are asking for millions of dollars in compensation, since a court agreed they had long been significantly underpaid. It was a hot summer…