India
Human Trafficking
12,000 Survivors Write to Indian PM on Anti-Trafficking Bill
Meera looked tiny behind the large wooden podium—bundled in her pink sweater and scarf, unrehearsed, and using a microphone for one of the first...
January 15
Slavery
Urgent Rescue: 52 Locked in Shed, Abused - Now Free
IJM supported local authorities in an urgent rescue operation this week in southern India, freeing 52 enslaved women, men and children from...
December 22
Sex Trafficking
Criminal Network Selling Hundreds of Girls Begins to Topple
Mumbai police and the IJM team have secured a much-awaited breakthrough in the fight against sex trafficking this fall.
December 06
Slavery
Six Rescued Children Now Dream of Home
An urgent rescue operation on Thursday brought 11 people to freedom in southern India, including six children and one baby who had grown up in...
November 19
Labor Trafficking
Rescue Reunites Boys with Mother After Six Years in Slavery
A dramatic rescue operation this week brought two young boys to freedom in southern India, ending years of their mother’s desperate searching.
November 15
Slavery
Thaiyamma took her one shot at freedom.
When Thaiyamma and Devendran found out their five-month-old daughter Lavanya was ill, they took a $15 loan of from the owner of a wood-cutting...
November 09
Sex Trafficking
Six Freed from Mumbai Brothel amid a Busy Festival Season
On Saturday, IJM staff supported senior anti-human trafficking police on a rescue operation to free six girls and young women from exploitation in a...
October 23
Slavery
Three Guilty for Holding Slaves in an Indian Rock Quarry
One south Indian court sent a powerful message to modern-day slave owners this week, as a judge convicted three men for enslaving families at a...
October 12
Slavery
Beaten and Betrayed: 14 Men Freed from an Abusive Ginger Farm
Local police have arrested one alleged slave owner and are searching for two others after a dramatic rescue operation that brought 14 terrified men...
September 17