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Some leading shoe manufacturers like Nike and Puma have made improvements in correcting forced labor in leather supply chains a survey shows. However, they could do more at tanneries and ranches providing them with hides. China’s largest shoe retailer, Belle International, did not provide information for the survey and they didn’t commit to making future […]
India has ratified two significant global agreements to fight child slavery, and thus committed the country to better international labor standards regarding employment of children. These laws will also subject the country to more scrutiny by other nations. India’s census found there were more than four million laborers aged between five and 14 in 2011 […]
In order to expose problems in the textile industry, India has doubled its compensation regarding deaths of workers who operate power looms. As one of the largest producers of fabric on the globe, India employs 4.5 million workers in 2.5 million power loom factories. Many of these operations use old technology that requires manual operation. […]
Traffickers are promising young Indian girls a trip to the Taj Mahal in order to lure them into sex slavery. Rishi Kant, of anti-trafficking charity Shakti Vahini, said 15 girls and young women were last week rescued from a brothel in the northern city of Agra, home to the 17th century white marble mausoleum which […]
Due to lax regulation, Australians are unwittingly spending up to $600 million a year on imported goods produced under slave labour conditions. [ref]Stop the Traffik, ‘Report: Unshackling Laws Against Slavery’, 2011[/ref] It is an offence in Australia for companies to make a financial transaction involving a slave. Yet not one Australian company has ever been […]
NEW DELHI — Kanchhi Maya Tamang is perhaps the first trafficking victim to climb Mount Everest, the highest point on earth. The twenty-eight-year-old woman was exploited and abused as a maid in Egypt, but she survived. Her feat helped spotlight the dangers of trafficking in her Himalayan homeland where thousands each year are lured into […]
Brick kiln workers in India face horrors. For his sister’s wedding, Brijesh Yadav borrowed US$300 from a contractor. It was start of a nightmare as he struggled to pay the debt. He and his family travelled to Uttar Pradesh to work in a brick kiln in Gujarat. “They would beat me day and night. He […]
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To call on Tata Global Beverages, one of the biggest tea companies in the world, play a leading role in ending the “Tea Maid Trade” from the tea plantations of Assam, India.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][ct_summary]Following a series of investigations that documented the trafficking of girls from tea estates owned by Amalgamated Plantations (APPL) in Assam, India into […]
Ashton Kutcher attended a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday morning to deliver a speech against modern slavery. The 39-year-old actor passionately testified on how to put an end to sex trafficking, discussing his work as co-founder of Thorn, an organization that seeks to better use technology to locate victims of the practice. “As part […]
Indian women and children--20,000 in all--became victims of trafficking last year according to a new govenment report.
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