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Indian activist and Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, says his country will soon serve as host to the world’s biggest march to fight human trafficking and sexual child abuse. “Satyarthi, whose charity Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) has rescued 80,000 enslaved children, said the march was part of a three year campaign to spread […]
Authorities reported on Monday that Mosques in the Indian technology hub of Hyderabad are joining a growing campaign to stop schoolgirls being sold into child marriages to older Arab men as brides. “India launched an investigation last week into the marriage of a 16-year-old girl with a 65-year-old Oman national in exchange for 500,000 Indian […]
Child marriage is deeply embedded into Indian culture. It is a wide-spread social evil that, in spite of social efforts and new laws to prevent it, continues in many areas of the country. “While most of the child brides reconcile to their fate, some of them fight back. One such girl belonging to a poor, […]
Sister Vanaja Jasphine, a 39-year-old Indian nun who rescues Cameroonian women from slavery, is asking for more support for victims as they recover from their horrific ordeals of being drugged, raped, and abused in the Middle East. The Sister has identified more than 200 victims who have been taken from central Africa and enslaved in the Middle East. Last year […]
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 Modi by chairperson of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women Vijaya Rahatkar, described the woman’s ordeal after being forced into commercial sexual exploitation. It urged […]
Today, the International Labor Organization (ILO) explains that forced labor in the private economy produces US $150 billion in illegal profits every year. It is the world’s most profitable crime with nearly 19 million victims globally. This is the story of Rani Hong. My name is Rani Hong. I’m from a small village in the […]
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 morning in southern India in the city of Chennai when a group of garment workers congregated in a small courtroom. They were there to hear […]
A survivor says: “I want to fight against child sexual exploitation and help others like me.” A new Indian program is working with survivors of child sex trafficking, so they can get justice for others like them ― by becoming lawyers. The School for Justice was started by a Dutch anti-trafficking group. Free a Girl uses […]
Girls and boys who are forced to go to India as sex workers might wait years to come back home to Bangladesh after they are rescued, but now a consular official is committed to speeding up the process. On an overcast evening, on a boat criss-crossing a river on the Bangladesh-India border, Payal, 16, hid […]
CHENNAI, India. There is a new program in southern India that aims at helping domestic workers improve their skills and hopefully avoid exploitation. The goal is to prepare workers to seek better wages, benefits, opportunities. From cooks, babysitters and gardeners to laundry workers and careers for the elderly, the “Kaushalya Karnataka” – or skilled Karnataka […]
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