India of course, contributes a big number in it. Anita Barar speaks with Nandita Roy who talks about the state of modern slavery in India and Indian governments initiatives to deal with it.

Of the estimated 29.8 million people living in modern slavery worldwide, nearly half are in India. This harrowing statistic comes from the 2013 Global Slavery Index, published by Australia’s ...

Court rulings have revealed harrowing stories of abuse and neglect at the hands of envoys operating under diplomatic immunity ...

quite often with help of Indian contractors. The issue of modern forms of slavery in Italy recently came to the fore after ...

Modern-day slavery is most prevalent throughout Africa, India, and Russia. This map from the report shows where it's the most prevalent: Around the world 35.8 million people are enslaved ...

“A Modern Form of Slavery,” which for 10 years has remained the industry gold standard in the thoroughness of its analysis and recommendations. Kara includes five case studies—India and Nepal, Italy ...

Of the legal nature and incidents of colonial slavery, as they respect its relations to persons of free condition in general, the master and his delegates excepted 5. Of the legal nature and incidents ...

Our Indian director looks behind the overwhelming statistics - revealing how the lack of education and persistent poverty provides a breeding ground for modern slavery. In this film, we follow the ...

Three Phd research work have been done so far on the marginalised Puroik community of the state.

Vasanti Megwhar and her family spend their days making bricks under the sun of the Thar Desert in southeast Pakistan, where temperatures can climb as high as 122 degrees. The Megwhars are one of ...

Modern slavery is very cheap ... Now bonded agricultural laborers in India generate more than a 50 percent profit per year for their slaveholders, and a return of 800 percent is not at all ...

While incidents of modern slavery are fewer in Australia compared ... Free's Global Slavery Index for the Asia-Pacific region ...