In sheer numbers, India's 14.3 million reveals the prevalence of slavery in the country, making up nearly 40% of the number of people in slavery worldwide. The next highest modern slave ...

India’s Adivasis often work in conditions commonly described as ‘modern-day slavery’, but they are not slaves. Their unfreedom is both the fuel and product of modern Indian capitalism.

The number of people living in modern slavery in India rose by 4.1 million in the last two years, showed the Global Slavery Index, 2016.

India has more people living in modern slavery than the population of the Netherlands, a new report estimates. More than 18 million people, or 1.4% of India's population, live in slavery Skip to ...

Slavery is still alive and well in India. The country is estimated to have several million modern day slaves thanks to its structured caste system, which can be taken advantage of by the powerful ...

India News: In its latest report, the Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in “modern slave ...

The Global Slavery Index 2013 ranked India, China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million) as having the largest number of people living in modern slavery.

“The trouble is that modern slavery is so endemic in both India and Thailand … so there’s a long way to go.” Cambodia showed slight progress in the 2017 index, moving up 19 places from ...

But according to the index, when countries are evaluated on numbers alone, the world’s biggest democracy, India, has the most people trapped in modern slavery, followed by China, North Korea ...

In this online slavery, ... Modern Slavery In The Gig Economy ... Indian consumers—especially those in the age group of 18-40— now represent a newly evolved class who effortlessly order their ...

Thousands of Indian farm labourers took out a march in June, urging an end to "slavery". Rampant illegal immigration in Italy in past decades or so has aggravated the problem of farm slavery.