Modern slavery can take different forms, including debt bondage and trafficking.
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Prosecutors believe the workers were in debt bondage, the Guardian said.
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In most cases, they are unpaid or held in debt bondage.
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In many cases, they are not paid or are held in debt bondage.
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Some NGO's call this kind of "debt bondage" a modern form of slavery.
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Activists expressed frustration, and said authorities failed to understand the definition of debt bondage.
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The concept of debt bondage is still unfamiliar to them, so they deny it.
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Most of the workers are illiterate, paid a pittance, and held in debt bondage.
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Widows forced to repay loans can be caught in a vicious cycle of debt bondage.
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They took a loan of 20,000 rupees from their boss that trapped them in debt bondage.
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Many use forced labor, while abuses including withheld salaries and debt bondage are rife, activists say.
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When she fell pregnant, they contacted a man in Malaysia and sold her into debt bondage.
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And most of them are cheated, in debt bondage and trafficked to places far from home, campaigners said.
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Bonded Labor/Debt Bondage Bonded labor is when an employer forces someone to work to pay off a debt.
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These days, the responsible parent is the one who pushes a child into the dependency of student-debt bondage.
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Other fishermen said they were in debt-bondage, because captains docked their wages to pay for drinking water at sea.
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All these communities are highly disadvantaged in India and represent the majority of individuals ensnared in debt bondage and human trafficking.
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Most were from the eastern state of West Bengal and forced into domestic work, prostitution and debt bondage across the country.
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Migrants who have no money left, especially unaccompanied minors, are frequently put into a kind of "debt bondage" by the smugglers.
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Many of them are trapped in debt bondage, face abuse or are forced to work long hours in poor conditions, campaigners say.
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They are typically forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude.
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Paid less than a minimum wage, manual scavengers are often forced to borrow money from their higher-caste employers, leading to debt bondage.
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Michaelle De Cock, one of the report's co-authors, says she was shocked by the level of debt bondage that the study revealed.
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The ILO estimates 5.5 million children are enslaved - born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor.
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He said workers regularly face discrimination, threats, financial exploitation and debt bondage, and that some were victims of human trafficking and forced labor.
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But at the time she was alone, trapped in debt bondage, and pregnant with the child of a human trafficker who'd raped her.
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Debt bondage is common in Brazil's lawless cattle country, according to the coordinator of this latest operation, Andre Wagner, also from the Labor Ministry.
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During crises families find it harder to provide food, education and protection for their children, increasing the risks of child labor, including debt bondage.
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The Malaysian government said last year it was looking into ways to cut middlemen and end debt bondage, a form of modern-day slavery.
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There is also debt bondage, Coppedge said, where a victim agrees to pay an exorbitant amount of money to come to the United States.
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This includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions, and long work hours that pose a risk to a worker's health or life, and violate their dignity.
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Campaigners fear without a crackdown on unscrupulous clinics across rural India, the practice will continue to endanger women's health and trap families in debt bondage.
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Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation.
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Modern-day slavery includes human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage, child slavery and the sale and exploitation of children, the report said.
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Across India, villagers are lured by traffickers with the promise of a good job and advance payments, but they often end up trapped in debt bondage.
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Drugs debts, including staged robberies of runners, are also used to maintain people in debt bondage and to prevent them going on the straight and narrow.
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Soniya spent four years in debt bondage, the most prevalent form of slavery in India, to pay off a family loan of 2000,280 Indian rupees ($232).
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Some 500,000 manual laborers in 11 industries in Tamil Nadu are trapped in debt bondage according to the International Justice Mission (IJM), an anti-slavery organization.
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Trapped in debt bondage, the most common form of slavery in India, they then spend the next six months or more working to pay it back.
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Economic abuse, including debt bondage and withholding or confiscating payments, was the most common type of control reported in hotline cases, according to the Polaris report.
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"There is a debt bondage that's between $1,000 and $2,000 a day that these girls must bring, must hand in to their trafficker or else," says Redsky.
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"Families trapped in debt bondage are never allowed to leave together," said Sarvanan Rajendran, a member of the Cheyyar bonded labor vigilance committee, who initiated the rescue.
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Two others survivors of debt bondage, the most prevalent form of slavery in India despite being banned in 1976, were also elected to councils in the area.
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Her trafficker took the little money Benin Santos made and put it towards exorbitant charges for rent and food, keeping Benin Santos firmly locked in debt bondage.
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Interviews with 20133 women who said they were struggling financially post-surgery uncovered 10 cases of debt bondage, with families selling jewelry, livestock and land to survive.
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Veng calls it a legal system of advance loans, but he says the distinction from debt bondage is "confusing" and for that reason, the practice should stop.
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Most are in debt bondage, receiving about 50,000 to 60,000 rupees ($745 to $895) from a middleman as an advance against working for six to eight months.
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Verite, a KTC partner, also found reports of debt bondage of sugarcane workers in India and found sugarcane workers in Guatemala at a high risk of trafficking.
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Almost 46 million people globally are living as slaves, trafficked into exploitation, sold for sex or trapped in debt bondage, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index.
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"These workers are in debt bondage, and if the shrimp shed closes, and they're indebted to brokers and employers, then they can be sold on," Hall said.
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In 25, an American State Department report on human trafficking flagged the trainee program for what it said were inadequate protections against "debt bondage" and other abuses.
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Most of them are unpaid or held in debt bondage, like Marimuthu, who was sent to Maharashtra three months ago from his home in Madurai, in Tamil Nadu.
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Read: Old mark of slavery being used on trafficking victims Today I am also issuing new regulations to make debt bondage a violation of Missouri's consumer protection statutes.
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In many cases, they are unpaid or held in debt bondage, forced to work without wages until they pay off loans they have taken to secure their jobs.
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In Brazil, slavery is defined as forced labor but also covers debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a health risk and work that violates human dignity.
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Almost 183 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, stuck in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2014 Global Slavery Index.
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Slavery in Brazil is defined as forced labor, but also includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a health risk or work that violates human dignity.
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In Brazil slavery is defined as forced labor, but also includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a health risk or work that violates human dignity.
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Almost 36 million people are enslaved worldwide — trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, says the 2014 Global Slavery Index.
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"This situation can be used by other buyers to exercise control over the coffee growers through debt bondage, forcing them into a cycle of debt and exploitation," she added.
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Many Indian workers in the Gulf - from cleaners to builders - say they have spoken to the government and charities about abuses from withholding wages and debt bondage to torture.
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As officials squeeze into Balan's hut, a dramatized audio play tells the story of a young family trapped in debt bondage, the most prevalent form of slavery in India.
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Yet many end up trapped in debt bondage, forced to live and work in squalid and unsafe conditions, stripped of their documents and subjected to threats, abuse and violence.
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But the Labor Ministry insists the illegal practice of debt bondage isn't flourishing in the kilns as LICADHO claims; in fact, the Ministry says the practice doesn't exist at all.
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These victims are among almost 46 million people globally living as slaves, trafficked into exploitation, sold for sex or trapped in debt bondage, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index.
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Debt bondage is one of the world's most prevalent forms of modern slavery, which affects 610,000 people in Thailand, shows the Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation.
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The United Nations' International Labour Organization says that high recruitment fees can trap workers in debt bondage, and make it difficult for them to leave even when they are abused.
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Some 500,000 manual laborers in 11 industries in Tamil Nadu are trapped in debt bondage, the majority working in brick kilns, according to the International Justice Mission, an anti-slavery organization.
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Most are from poor rural areas and are lured to cities by traffickers who promise good jobs, but in many cases, they are not paid or are held in debt bondage.
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Many of the workers employed in this $40-billion-a-year industry are trapped in debt bondage, face abuse or are forced to work long hours in poor conditions, campaigners say.
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Many of the workers employed in the $40-billion-a-year industry are trapped in debt bondage, face abuse or are forced to work long hours in poor conditions, campaigners say.
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Many of the workers employed in this $40-billion-a-year industry are trapped in debt bondage, face abuse or are forced to work long hours in poor conditions, activists said.
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In Brazil, slavery is defined as forced labor but also covers debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a risk to health and any work that violates human dignity.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British school children as young as seven are being exploited by criminal gangs and forced to deal drugs, with some duped into debt bondage, researchers said on Friday.
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The term "slave" implies many forms of exploitation, including, but not limited to, sex trafficking, child sex trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude, and unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers.
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Some 500,000 manual laborers in 11 industries in Tamil Nadu, including the multi billion dollar textile industry, are trapped in debt bondage, according to the International Justice Mission, an anti-slavery organization.
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Many migrants who are trafficked to Britain are charged large sums in return for providing them with a job and housing, and end up trapped in debt bondage, according to the GLAA.
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HelperChoice is one of several online services cutting out the middleman - recruiters who charge would-be maids exorbitant fees – and helping them to avoid getting trapped in debt bondage to exploitative employers.
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The fear of these oaths and their supposed consequences is one big reason women remain enslaved in sex work and debt bondage; they often rebuff attempts by activists to set them free.
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Thousands of Nigerian women and girls are lured to Europe each year by the promise of work, but end up trapped in debt bondage and forced to sell sex, the United Nations says.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Seasonal migrant workers employed under a British government scheme to minimize labor shortages after Brexit must be protected from debt bondage and slavery, campaigners and lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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There are 168 million child laborers across the world, according to the International Labour Organization, with 5.5 million born into servitude, trafficked for sex work or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor.
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Edo state in southern Nigeria has long been the country's hub for women and girls trafficked for sex work in Europe, often bound by black magic and trapped in debt bondage for years.
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Cambodia's brick industry is powered by a multigenerational workforce of adults and children trapped in debt bondage, according to a 2018 report by researchers at Royal Holloway, part of the University of London.
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" When she asks why it is inhabiting the person, she said, the spirit explains the debt bondage, at which point "I say, O.K., in the name of the Lord, depart from the person. Depart!
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The report defines modern slavery as situations of exploitation that a person can't refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion or deception -- which includes forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage and human trafficking.
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Labor rights experts said such debts put people at risk of falling prey to the world's most common form of modern slavery, debt bondage, where people are locked into exploitative work to repay debts.
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Bangladesh's current informal recruitment system involves unofficial middlemen - who despite bringing recruiters and rural workers together - often give false promises about jobs and then charge exorbitant fees that trap many workers in debt bondage.
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Brokerage firms, which handle almost every aspect of a foreign worker's life in Taiwan, are regularly accused of charging exorbitant fees, which the U.S. Department of State said leaves workers "vulnerable to debt bondage".
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Danone and DPA are accused of being complicit with an businessman who kept 28 people in debt bondage, because their affiliated distributors sold him their products in bulk without monitoring working conditions at his operation.
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While factors ranging from India's caste system to rural-urban migration or drought and deforestation are often cited as causing debt bondage, the financial impact of hysterectomies has received little attention, human rights campaigners say.
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In Brazil, modern-day slavery has been defined as forced labor including debt bondage, degrading work conditions, and long work hours that pose a risk to a worker's health or life, and violate their dignity.
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PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new government push to stamp out debt bondage and child labor in Cambodian brick kilns needs to be backed by a fresh commitment to enforcement, campaigners warned on Wednesday.
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These could take years to pay back, resulting in "debt bondage," a common form of modern slavery that occurs when a person is forced to work to pay off debts for little or no pay.
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As many as 10 million migrants are estimated to work across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and campaigners say debt bondage, limited state oversight, and unscrupulous employment practices leave them vulnerable to labor abuses and slavery.
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The study said forced labor was a significant problem on cattle ranches in Brazil, the world's largest hide-producing country, with young men ending up in debt bondage after being brought to plantations by labor brokers.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister who transfixed Europe with his unconventional style at the climax of the debt crisis, launched a new party on Monday promising to free his country from debt bondage.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Special taskforces have been established in India to help stop women from being duped by doctors into having unnecessary hysterectomies that cause debt bondage and enslave families, the country's health ministry said.
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Globally an estimated 45.8 million people are born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by human rights group Walk Free Foundation.
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The findings mark the first time the groups collaborated on an international estimate and prompted calls for stronger labor rights, improved governance of migrants, action to address root causes of debt bondage and better victim identification.
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Half of forced laborers were victims of debt bondage, who were made to work to repay a debt or other obligation, and nearly four million adults and one million children were victims of forced sexual exploitation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major hotels in Britain are failing to protect workers from debt bondage and sexual exploitation, according to a study on Wednesday that found 75% of hospitality businesses were flouting anti-slavery legislation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major hotels in Britain are failing to protect workers from debt bondage and sexual exploitation, according to a study on Wednesday that found 75% of hospitality businesses were flouting anti-slavery legislation.
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"There is a huge urgency for this bill," said Tathagata Satpathy, a parliamentarian from the eastern state of Odisha, where authorities have for years recorded the trafficking of people into debt bondage, often in brick kilns.
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An estimated 22 million people were enslaved globally last year, in both rich and poor countries, with modern slavery becoming a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, and forced marriage.
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Thai police have reported a rise in trafficking from Myanmar to Malaysia this year, while Lee said she had heard accounts of Rohingya being held in jungle camps, sold by their traffickers and trapped in debt bondage.
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Under Brazilian law, forced labour is defined as a form of modern-day slavery that includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions and long hours that pose a risk to workers' health or life and violate their dignity.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former executive for a Chinese construction company was found guilty on Friday of U.S. charges that he forced Chinese laborers to work in the New York area under a form of debt bondage.
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Almost 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories and mines, or trapped in debt bondage, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
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"We have seen numerous problems across this industry, from modern day slavery, debt bondage, failure to pay proper wages," said Darryl Dixon, head of strategy at the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), Britain's anti-slavery body.
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Under Brazilian law, forced labor is defined as a form of modern-day slavery that includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions and long hours that pose a risk to workers' health or life and violate their dignity.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Punjab are investigating whether a brick kiln owner held migrant workers and their children in debt bondage, after labourers and activists protested preliminary findings that there were no violations of labour laws.
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The 20113-year-old is one of nearly 16 million people in India who have been forced into manual labour, trafficked into brothels, stuck in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2014 Global Slavery Index.
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While many people believe slavery no longer exists in the modern age, the ILO estimates that 5.5 million of these children are enslaved — born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor.
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While the workers did work at diplomatic missions, court papers say they were forced into "debt bondage contracts" and made to work on several outside projects, including at least two private homes, in Queens and on Long Island.
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Thousands of workers in car washes are believed to be slaves - mostly men lured from Eastern Europe then trapped in debt bondage, forced to work in unsafe conditions, stripped of documents and subjected to threats, abuse and violence.
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From the perceptive health inspector to the Martin County sheriff, who witnessed the deplorable living conditions and took immediate steps to open an investigation into suspected debt bondage, the effort recognizes that prostitution is not a victimless crime.
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The index, by Australia-based human rights group Walk Free Foundation, increased its estimate of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, or trapped in debt bondage or forced labor to 45.8 million from 35.8 million in 2014.
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In 2018 inspectors found 52 people trafficked from Brazil's poor northern states to São Paulo, where they were put in debt bondage and made to work at the bottom of the dairy supply chain, as door to door salesmen.
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If you look at the most recent estimates put out by the International Labour Organisation and Walk Free Foundation who collaborated together, they say that 50 percent of people that are enslaved are in debt bondage or bonded labour.
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The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimated about 46 million people are in some form of modern slavery - forced into manual labor, trafficked to brothels, victims of debt bondage or born into servitude - with about 161,000 people in Brazil enslaved.
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NEW YORK, March 22 (Reuters) - A former executive for a Chinese construction company was found guilty on Friday of U.S. charges that he forced Chinese laborers to work in the New York area under a form of debt bondage.
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Upfront visa and travel costs under the two schemes could leave short-term migrant workers vulnerable to debt bondage, while a lack of access to public funds could trap them in abusive workplaces, said Focus on Labor Exploitation (FLEX).
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"Mica mining in India is tainted not only by child labor but also by debt bondage of adult workers and businesses must realize the risks that these practices pose to their supply chains," says Aiden McQuade of Anti-Slavery International.
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Apple paid $1.9 million in recruitment fees last year for employees impacted by bonded labor—also known as debt bondage, this is when a person is hired under the condition that their labor is repayment for some type of debt.
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Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation with nearly 46 million people enslaved around the world, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index.
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Although they are not treated as the property of "owners," these victims of debt bondage, kidnapping and childhood indenture as domestic servants are not free to leave their work and are vulnerable to exploitation and high levels of control and abuse.
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Bales doesn't know how many of the modern slaves fit his argument, but the number of miners, loggers and fishers in debt bondage or coerced by warlords looks to be much smaller than his figure of 35 million slaves worldwide.
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The research teams gained access to the farms on the pretext of conducting medical camps or in some instances saying they were lost, and identified more than 50 families, including 73 children living in debt bondage with no access to schools.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Marimuthu, a south Indian teenager, had no idea the debt bondage he was pushed into last year would lead to serious burns on his legs, forcing him to escape his abusive employer and seek hospital treatment.
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Thousands of workers in Britain's car washes are estimated to be slaves - mostly men lured from Eastern Europe then trapped in debt bondage, forced to work in unsafe conditions, stripped of their documents and subjected to threats, abuse and violence.
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Nearly 46 million people globally are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation.
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In Brazil - whose government has rescued more than 53,000 people in slave-like conditions since 1995 - slavery is defined as forced labor, and also includes debt bondage, degrading work conditions and long hours that pose a health risk to workers.
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Sixty-eight percent — or 27 million — are exploited in the private economy by individuals or enterprises and forced to work involuntarily as traffickers employ debt bondage, document confiscation, physical abuse and other tactics to keep them hostage, the ILO reports.
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More than half of laborers mining granite in these states for tiles, fireplaces and kitchen counters around the world are working in dangerous conditions to repay huge loans - leaving them trapped in a cycle of debt bondage - according to the ICN.
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" Labor trafficking is defined as "The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.
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But advocacy groups say many of the workers are victims of human trafficking and debt bondage, who had to fork out huge sums to pay recruiters in return for jobs that paid much less than the ones they were promised.
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An estimated 45.8 million people globally live in some form of slavery, either trafficked into forced labour, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation.
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Critics say the pilot scheme to allow 2,500 migrants from non-European Union nations to work on farms for up to six months is "fundamentally flawed" because the upfront visa and travel costs could leave workers vulnerable to debt bondage.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Malaysian recruitment agency set to launch a pioneering "ethical" hiring model has called for an industry overhaul to tackle debt bondage among migrant workers and end modern slavery in the Southeast Asian nation.
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More than half of labourers mining granite in these states for tiles, fireplaces and kitchen counters around the world are working in dangerous conditions to repay huge loans - leaving them trapped in a cycle of debt bondage - according to the ICN.
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Thousands of workers in Britain's car washes are believed to be slaves - mostly men lured from Eastern Europe then trapped in debt bondage, forced to work in unsafe conditions, stripped of their documents and subjected to threats, abuse and violence.
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A court in Tamil Nadu state found three men guilty of using violence, intimidation and debt bondage to force people to work in the quarry in Tiruvannamalai district, and sentenced them each last week to 11 years and nine months in prison.
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Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation.
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Reports have emerged in recent years of Liberian boys being trafficked to an academy in Laos and trapped there in debt bondage, and Brazilian teenagers recruited from the Amazon to an academy in Sao Paolo, sleeping four to a mattress in a bedsit.
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Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by the Walk Free Foundation.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most of the 12 million workers in India's brick kilns are victims of debt bondage, labor rights campaigners said on Friday, as they appealed to all major political parties to help crack down on the middlemen who trap them.
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"This is the first case of trafficking with a purpose of labor exploitation and the different types of modern-day slavery, including debt bondage and forced labor, the court is hearing," Krsticevic, a lawyer, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
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Rights groups first brought the case to the court's sister organization, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, which ruled in November 2011 that the Brazilian government was responsible for forced labor and debt bondage "analogous to slavery" found on the ranch.
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It's a big change from a life of debt bondage on sugarcane farms, where workers typically sign up for six months' labor, taking the money in advance, then get trapped in repayments and can end up exploited and unable to break free.
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In Flushing's illicit massage parlors, Asian immigrants in debt-bondage are forced into prostitution by sex traffickers; along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, transgender, undocumented immigrants from Latin America come to the trade after being turned away from work in restaurants and hotels.
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While many slavemasters and traffickers focus on the profits derived from the work done by their victims - others concentrate on maximizing the number of people under their control and money they can make by trapping them in debt bondage, the study said.
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Of the hundreds of fishermen we interviewed across Thailand, overwork with illegally excessive hours, illegally low pay, and debt bondage — key elements of human trafficking — were widespread, impacting more than 75 percent of respondents at some point over the past five years.
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Brazil's BRF, one of the world's largest poultry exporters, said in a recent statement that it "does not tolerate and strongly condemns all forms of work in degrading conditions and incompatible with human dignity, such as exhausting working days, forced labor and debt bondage".
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the third Global Slavery Index released on Tuesday.
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But worried and silenced by the nation's hardened attitude toward migrants, frightened workers face greater risk of falling victim to forced labor, trafficking, wage theft and debt bondage, advocates and officials told the Thomson Reuters Foundation during several trips over a five-month period.
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Thousands of children in Britain are estimated to be used to carry drugs from cities to rural areas - most aged between 15 and 17 - and many are trapped in the growing trade by debt bondage or threats of kidnap, violence and rape, the NCA said.
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Many women and girls have been lured from Nigeria in recent years with promises of work and good wages only to end up trapped in debt bondage, and the World Cup could see the number of victims arriving in Russia soar, according to Alternativa.
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Having a hysterectomy brought on the menopause for Vaijanti, also a farm laborer, then aged 19, while Dharmendra was forced to work on the money lender's farm for long hours and low pay as he tried to clear his debt - becoming a victim of debt bondage.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India has the most slaves in the world with over 1403 million people trapped in debt bondage, forced into marriage, sold to brothels or born into servitude, according to a global slavery index, which noted an improved government response to the issue.
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KARJAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of brick kiln workers in India's western Maharashtra state are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment - but remain in debt bondage to owners who deny them these rights with impunity.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian state with some of the country's highest levels of migration driven by poverty is doubling the amount of paid work it gives some of its poorest citizens, in a bid to curb debt bondage, a common form of slavery.
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Governments and businesses would dramatically improve their ability to identify and suppress human trafficking if they focused on the subtler "invisible" abuses of power, discrimination, debt bondage, and financial coercion that actually keep workers enslaved, rather than on "traditional" notions of slavery such as physical abuse.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poor Brazilians have been lured to coffee plantations with promises of good wages only to find themselves living in squalor and debt bondage, although the government has taken steps to name and shame farms involved in modern slavery, aid agencies said on Monday.
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In Greece — a small country, yet one that has proved to be a bellwether thanks to its gargantuan and systemically significant debt — protests against the debt bondage imposed on the population evolved into a progressive, internationalist coalition led by the Syriza party that came from nowhere to win government.
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People employed in manufacturing often work excessive hours, are underpaid, live in substandard housing and have their documents withheld to prevent them from leaving their jobs, according to IOM X. Debt bondage is also common, where migrant workers pay hundreds of dollars to secure a job but are not allowed to leave the workplace when they suffer abuse, it said.
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