Modern-Day Slavery Location: India
This modern-day slavery location is home to the world’s most significant number of enslaved people.
An estimated 18,354,700 individuals are reportedly living in modern slavery, which includes forced child labor, intergenerational bonded labor, forced marriage, and commercial sexual exploitation.
According to a report from Free The Slaves, impoverished villagers are mainly vulnerable to being enslaved through bonded labor and debt bondage, both of which are illegal. They must work in unsanitary and dangerous conditions to repay a growing debt.
And while this country’s intelligence agency advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “discredit” the report made in 2017 by the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, and Australian rights group Walk Free Foundation, the United Nations continued to defend its research, according to Reuters.
And the labor ministry vowed to rescue 18 million bonded laborers by 2030.
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Anybody who has a job and are having taxes withheld from working are slaves. Stop pretending it only happens to other countries or African Americans. It is all of us who work every day just to live paycheck to paycheck. While our government takes all it can and just leaving you enough to live day to day. Never being able to enjoy anything in life. I never been on vacation, and I am 54 years old and worked most of my life. Open your eyes.