Global Slavery Index

Chennai: Convicting traffickers operating across state and national borders is the biggest challenge law enforcement agencies face today, Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, Police Commissioner from Telangana, said after winning the US government’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Hero award. The US State Department named Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat one of eight...

A new report has revealed that more than 45 million men, women and children find themselves trapped in modern day slavery across the globe. Two thirds of them are in Asia, says the Global Slavery Index 2016.

India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of people in the world trapped in modern slavery with 18.35 million victims

Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday.

Chennai: Convicting traffickers operating across state and national borders is the biggest challenge law enforcement agencies face today, Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, Police Commissioner from Telangana, said after winning the US government’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Hero award. The US State Department named Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat one of eight...

A new report has revealed that more than 45 million men, women and children find themselves trapped in modern day slavery across the globe. Two thirds of them are in Asia, says the Global Slavery Index 2016.

India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of people in the world trapped in modern slavery with 18.35 million victims

Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday.