Does modern day slavery exist in India?

According to a Walk Free Foundation report in 2016, there were 46 million people enslaved worldwide in 2016, there were 18.3 million people in India living in the forms of modern slavery, such as bonded labour, child labour, forced marriage, human trafficking, forced begging, among others. read more

According to the respected Global Slavery Index, there are around 46 million people worldwide experiencing real slavery such as bonded labour, sex slavery and forced marriage. Around 18 million of these people, or almost 40%, are in India. read more

India has more people living in modern slavery than the population of the Netherlands, a new report estimates. Of the 167 countries surveyed, the South Asian country has the highest number of people living in slavery–more than 18 million people, or 1.4% of the population. read more