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Agents and sometimes even families drive into the tea gardens, pick any child and go. It’s become an accepted norm. Thomson Reuters Foundation talked with a young Indian girl named Badaik whose own father sold her into domestic slavery for $7.70 when she was barely knee high. Her father took her by bus to the northeast Indian […]
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two domestic workers in the UK who were exploited by their former employer, Jarallah al-Malki, a Saudi diplomat. As reported by The Guardian, the ruling clarified that the Malki was no longer protected by diplomatic immunity and that employing a domestic worker did not fall under a […]
The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that having sex with underage brides is now a criminal offense. As reported by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the landmark ruling now has potential to prevent young girls across the country from being forced into marriage and raped by their husbands. The country’s Supreme Court struck down an old clause […]
Haji Khan spent years scouring the streets of Hyderabad in search of young Indian girls to marry off to men visiting from Gulf States. Earning 10,000 rupees ($150) for each girl, Khan made two types of deals: ‘pucca,” or long-term marriages where the girl would fly back with her husband to his home country, and ‘time pass’ […]
The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Walk Free Foundation are defending their new report on slavery around the world, which estimates that there are more than 40 million victims of modern day slavery. Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that a memo from India’s intelligence bureau noted that this data […]
A 13-year-old girl who had been held captive in domestic servitude by a 23-year-old woman in India jumped from the 11th floor of the apartment building in Faridabad. The child was caught in a bird net on the 10th floor and was rescued by residents. The horrific story was reported by News 18 in India. […]
Major brands are failing to disclose the risks of human trafficking and forced labor in their supply chains according to Thomson Reuters Foundation. Under Britain’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act, companies with an annual revenue of over 36 million pounds ($48 million) are required to issue statements on how they are addressing slavery in their supply […]
Under India’s Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act of 1976 forced labor is prohibited. On paper the law looks good, and since May 2016 freed bonded laborers became entitled to government rehabilitation assistance in the form of Rs 1 lakh as well as access to agricultural land, low-cost housing, minimum wage employment, free rations under the public […]
According to Channel News Asia, it is estimated that there are 480,000 Rohingya who have fled deadly violence in Rakhine state, crossing the border into neighboring Bangladesh. The island of Shah Porir Dwip has been one entry point, where displaced Rohingya hang on to their few belongings and sit beneath trees as they await rickshaws […]
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