Slavery is everywhere in India. We help communities plan their escape. We prevent others from taking their place in slavery. In debt bondage, slaves are chained to an illegal financial obligation that they are forced to repay through endless labor.

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Please refresh the page and retry. At just 17 she was married off to a lorry driver living in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A preference for sons over daughters meant there were only females to 1, males in Baghpat, according to the Indian government census. D r Neelam Singh — who runs Vatsalya, an NGO combating female foeticide in Uttar Pradesh — warns the gap has widened significantly since those figures were published.

The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6. In the Global Slavery Index, we reported there were The GSI also reflects the addition of forced sexual exploitation and children in modern slavery but does not include figures on organ trafficking or the use of children in armed conflict.