Despite a 50-year-old law, bonded labour persists in Tamil Nadu, highlighting the urgent need for stronger enforcement ...

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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Every day as Kamla dug through the mud and molded bricks for north Indian kiln, her two hungry children would cry out to her for food. The 200 rupees ($3) she made for producing ...

Fifty years after bonded labour was outlawed in India, trafficking, forced work, and failed rehabilitation continue to trap millions of workers, revealing a deep crisis of implementation and ...

Modern slavery is when a person is unable to leave a place or employment due to threats, assault, compulsion, deceit, or the misuse of authority. There are now 50 million individuals in modern slavery ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery across the globe, many of them men, women and children trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labor, according to a global ...