Modern Slavery

Ashton Kutcher calls for use of technology to eradicate sex trafficking

Ashton Kutcher and his ex-wife Demi Moore co-founded Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, an organisation that builds software to tackle sex trafficking

Lessons from the Saudi diplomat case: Should working for envoys come with a 'slave' warning?

A Saudi diplomat in India, the First Secretary at the Embassy, is on his way out of the country with his family. The two maids allege that for months they have been treated as sex slaves, passed around by the diplomat to his friends, beaten and sometimes not given food.

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India has almost half of the world's 30 million slaves: survey

Its estimate of 29.8 million slaves worldwide is higher than other attempts to quantify modern slavery. The International Labour Organisation estimates that almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour.