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Do you think India should give sex workers rights and aid, or just aid? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! “I need work, not aid.” – Mumtaz, sex worker…

…only sometimes will she give me a small part of the money I’ve earned.” The Guardian reports: In the Sundarbans, on the border between India and Bangladesh, severe cyclones have…

…the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian children are more vulnerable than ever to labor trafficking. Indian authorities have reported an increase in children rescued from child labor in 2020-2021 compared to the…

…marry against her will. She’s now become a poster girl for campaigning against forced child marriage in her village. The Times of India reports: “Only the girl is on the…

Tea giant Twinings has published a list of Indian tea plantations that it buys from following pressure to increase transparency in an industry rife with labor abuses. The move comes…

Grain banks are opening their doors to more than 5,000 homes across northern India in a move to prevent families from falling into debt bondage. During the monsoon season, when…

India’s newly proposed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 is coming under fire for its lack of adherence to international labor standards and over-reliance on criminalization as…

…impact on rural workers in the Indian state, forcing many to take out loans to get by. The organ trafficking racket was first exposed when a person from the Dakshin…

A Melbourne couple who kept a Tamil woman from India in domestic servitude for eight years have both been handed prison sentences this week in a case that Justice John…

…in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Brazil, Nepal, the Philippines, Kosovo, Iran, and former Soviet states in eastern Europe. Criminal gangs and traffickers operating outside of legitimate systems exploit people made vulnerable…