Slavery index ---where stands India

Slavery index

Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced  marriage, and sale or  exploitation of children), human trafficking  and forced labour.

Trafficking Slavery MEANS

1 Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or  receipt of persons.

2 By means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the  abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the  consent of a person having control over another person  (these means are not required in the case of children).

3 With the intent of exploiting that person through:

Prostitution of others;

Sexual exploitation;

Forced labour;

Slavery (or similar practices);

Servitude; and

Removal of organs.

(UN Trafficking Protocol, 2000)

• The first Global Slavery Index published by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation, ranked 162 countries based on three factors that include estimated prevalence of modern slavery, a measure of child marriage and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country.
• The index was created in consultation with an international panel of experts and has been endorsed by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former British prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Julia Gillard, and philanthropists Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson and Mo Ibrahim. 

• Modern slavery included slavery, practices such as debt bondage, forced marriage and sale or exploitation of children as well as human trafficking and forced labour. 
• According to the index, there are 29.6 million people in modern slavery globally. India leads the world, followed by China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh. These 10 countries account for 76% of the world's modern slaves. 
• Sixty-six years after independence, India has the dubious distinction of being home to half the number of modern day slaves in the world. The first Global Slavery Index has estimated that 13.3 to 14.7 million people live like slaves in the country — roughly equal to the population of Kolkata. 
• The study says that in India there's some exploitation of foreign nationals but by far the largest proportion of slaves are Indians exploited by other Indians within the country, particularly through debt bondage and bonded labour. 
• India is one of the few countries that has not ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention.
• SOURCE ----http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/