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Article

21 Aug 2016

Author:
Rohit Gandhi, Daily News & Analysis

India: Chained to servitude

Slavery still exists today, not legally, of course, and continues to be a highly profitable industry around the world...The categories of modern-day slavery are domestic servitude, sex trafficking, bonded labour, child labour and forced marriage. We see all of them around us and yet we have become immune to it...here are several cases of children working in dangerous conditions such as in mining and welding at wages as low as Rs60 per week. Sometimes, the children are just given their meals with no wages being paid. In the South of Gujarat and Rajasthan, bonded labour is rampant especially in the brick kiln industry.