Nearly 14 Million Indians Live In Modern Slavery

Nearly 14 Million Indians Live In Modern Slavery

A recent study published this Thursday by the Walk Free Foundation, a human right’s group that hails from Australia has shown that in modern India nearly 14 million people live in slavery like conditions caused by poverty, social customs and weak laws.

The same study determined that nearly 30 million people world-wide live in slavery like conditions due to mostly the same reasons found in India.

While India has nearly half of the world’s total modern slave like population, it’s Mauritania, a country located in West Africa that has the biggest percentage of population living in slave like conditions. With 150,000 people out of a total number of 3.8 million inhabitants, Mauritania tops the list of 162 countries that took part in the survey.

While most of the people living in these miserable conditions have to blame poverty and weak government measures, a staggeringly high number of people are actually born into hereditary slavery or are kidnapped and sold as slaves.

The study has shown that countries like India, China, Russia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Congo and  few others constitute more than three quarters of the total people living in slavery like conditions. The numbers shown by the Australian study are considerably higher than the International Labor Organization’s 21 million forced labor victims.

Posted by James Fried on Friday October 18 2013, 10:12 AM EST. Ref: time. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0