[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To provide the first year of funding to As Our Own, so that three Indian girls can attend college nursing school. [/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][ct_summary]In India, education is critical for breaking out of the cycle of exploitation. Without it, an average worker will make less than $2 a day. Most girls in India never get the chance […]
You can read the short transcript about forced child marriage instead. From the Middle East to North America, South Asia to Africa, child marriage is a global problem that cuts across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Niger has the highest rate of child marriage. But the country with the highest number of child marriages is […]
[vc_row ct_padding=”u-no-space”][vc_column][ct_goal]To support a new survivor shelter in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, that would house 125 young survivors of trafficking who will learn new skills.[/ct_goal][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][ct_summary]Until recently, there was no safe place in Northern India for sex trafficking survivors to go once they escaped their traffickers. Made By Survivors (MBS), an organization that fights slavery with employment and education, is working to change that. […]
Susan Coppedge has recently been appointed to a new position in the U.S. State Department: Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
India currency note ban is causing a drop in sex trafficking.
In order to mark International Day for Abolition of Slavery, teleSUR takes a look at modern-day slavery in pictures.
Brick layers were rescued from a construction site in Karnatake, according to police on Monday.
A human trafficking increase of 25 percent was seen in India in 2015
Multinationals--companies operating in several countries--can do more to combat human slavery. This past February Obama eliminated the loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, a provision that allowed imports of products regardless of how they were manufactured...
Twelve-year-old Rinki sat on the bed of the children's shelter and told the story of a job offer as a domestic helper.