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India holds the distinction of being one of the world’s largest sugar producers and ranks second in global sugar exports, earning $4 billion every year from sugar alone. But a…

NPR News relays the story of Shanta Bai, a farmworker in rural India, who was locked in a chicken coop for a week by her employer, along with other women,…

Credit: Courtesy of CNA and The Moving Visuals Co. Watch ‘The Ugly Side of Beauty’ here. “Three years ago I got a loan from a money lender of 4,100 Indian…

…and Pakistan. Reports of debt bondage in India and human trafficking risks for sugarcane workers in Guatemala have also been documented.11 In 2015, around 80% of the 170 million tons…

…estimates that the more than 17,000 women and girls trafficked every year to India alone are usually forced into sex work, circus work, domestic servitude and are targeted for organ…

…in the Sumer, Babylonia and the Akkadian Empires. For example, the Andurārum edicts of the Akkadian Empire released bonded workers from debt peonage. In a modern context, India’s Bonded Labour…

Survivors of human trafficking and exploitation in India face significant hurdles in accessing the support they need to rebuild their lives. A lack of access to economic opportunities that would…

Free Child – India, By Lisa Kristine Slaveholders burned down the homes of these villagers when they declared their freedom. Many villagers wanted to give up. Grassroots activists helped the…

Free Child – India, By Lisa Kristine Slaveholders burned down the homes of these villagers when they declared their freedom. Many villagers wanted to give up. Grassroots activists helped the…

…were taken on a 33-hour journey to Kashmir, the northernmost Indian region. There, they were sold to expecting “husbands”, some for as little as $35. Unable to return home In…