India
Slavery
Scared and Scarred: 11 Rescued from Fried Snack Factory
Over the weekend, IJM supported local officials and NGO partners in rescuing two men and nine teen boys from bonded labour slavery at an urban...
January 21
Slavery
12,000 Survivors Write to Indian PM on New 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 21
Slavery
Nine Months Pregnant. One Shot at Freedom.
The birth of a child should always be a beautiful moment, but for women around the world living in modern-day slavery, pregnancy can be a time of...
January 07
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 24
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...
December 06
Sex Trafficking
Criminal Network that Sold 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. After more than a year of...
December 06
Slavery
The Gift of Freedom
In 2012, Kamal and her husband Krushna were on their way to a city more than 700 miles away from home.
They had just packed up their two small...
November 05
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 24
Slavery
Bhavani was Kidnapped at Five Years Old
Life was hard enough before Bhavani was forcefully taken from her parents.
Her mom and dad had been slaves on a sugarcane farm for a year. They were...
October 15