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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modern slavery in India: 5,616 enslaved every day over last two years -Shreya Mittal and Sukanya Bhattacharyya

Modern slavery in India: 5,616 enslaved every day over last two years -Shreya Mittal and Sukanya Bhattacharyya

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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

“No one can imagine such a painful life. There is much torture on me and I am punished even for my minor mistakes like a child. My family is always living under threats. There is also physical violence against me and my family members.”

This is a statement made by a respondent of the surveys conducted in India as part of the Global Slavery Index, 2016.

As many as 18.3 million Indians live in conditions listed as “modern slavery” in 2016, equivalent to the population of Netherlands, a rise of 4.1 million since 2014, according to a new global report. In other words, 5,616 Indians were enslaved every day over these two years.

On an average, 51 out of every 100 people in India are vulnerable to modern slavery – bonded labour, forced begging, forced marriage, domestic services and commercial sex work – according to the Global Slavery Index 2016 compiled by the Walk Free Foundation, an Australian advocacy.

India has the fourth-highest proportion of people living under enslaved conditions, after North Korea, Uzbekistan and Cambodia. India was at fifth position in 2014, where Qatar is at present, the report said.

“The term modern slavery refers to situations where one person has taken away another person’s freedom – to control their body, their freedom to choose, to refuse certain work or to stop working – so that they can be exploited. Freedom is taken away by threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power and deception,” the Global Slavery Index 2016 report said.

The Asia-Pacific region has the highest number of people living under conditions of modern slavery; almost 46% of human trafficking is reported from this region. While 83% victims are male, around 17% are female.

Forced- and child-marriage are high in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Indonesia. A sex-ratio imbalance, resulting in absence of brides in India, has fuelled the trafficking of women and forced marriage.

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Scroll.in, 14 June, 2016, http://scroll.in/article/809570/modern-slavery-in-india-5616-enslaved-every-day-over-the-last-few-years


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