Modern Slavery

For Bangladesh’s RMG sector, the stakes are high. The RMG sector remains central to employment, poverty reduction and foreign-exchange earnings at a moment when the country is navigating LDC graduation timelines and broader economic pressures.

Earlier in 2025, Pakistan reported a 47 per cent drop in illegal “dunki” route attempts and the arrest of 1,770 human smugglers and agents.

Judges determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the four ordered, induced or solicited the crime against humanity of persecution on gender and political grounds.

Rights groups argue that without clear regulation, effective monitoring and economic alternatives, vulnerable women remain at risk.

Safai Karmachari Andolan declared the launch of a year-long campaign INDIA@80 to free India from the national shame of manual scavenging.

Human traffickers and migration agents still find willing clients because the alternative feels equally bleak to many young people.

Young people who set out with dreams of supporting their families return broken, indebted, or not at all.