The Anti-Slavery Society

                   
                     
 

fighting slavery today

                   

 

 

Raids and Rescues

 

 

 

         
 

 

         

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Buying chocolates or gems for Mother's Day?

 

Raids and Rescues

Does slavery still exist?

What is slavery?

Slavery today

Hierodulic servitude

Child hierodules

Bonded labor

Pawnage

Forced labor

Serfdom

Odalisques

Servile concubinage

Child labor

Talismanic child sacrifice

 

Were the chocolates produced in Cote d'Ivoire by plantation slaves or the gems mined in Sierra Leone by child slaves or polished in India by child laborers?

 

Over 642 children were rescued last year and 92 so far this year. Most were rescued from jewelry and garment embroidery sweatshops. The remainder were rescued from other industries, such as the plastics industry.

Most were from Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Nepal.

The current focus is on garment embroidery and jewelry sweatshops where children work in large numbers.

The Society has continued funding for the 2012–2013 fiscal year. Your support helps fund these raids. 


 
         

 

               

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Arrested traffickers

   

 

         
     
 
         
     

June, 2012
Conference: Child labor in Agriculture, Washington DC

 

 
         
               
               
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