India is undergoing a remarkable 'triple transition', in which economic growth is both driving and is being affected by rapid social and political change. Economic growth has rapidly transformed the country over the past 20 years, including the creation of a burgeoning middle-class. In 1993, some 45 percent of the population were living in poverty; by 2011 that had been reduced to 21 percent. In addition to economic growth, ambitious programs of legal and social reform are being undertaken right across the board, from regulation of labour relations to systems of social insurance for the most vulnerable. Even with such remarkable change, given India has a population of more than 1.3 billion people, there are still at least 270 million people living on less than US$1.90 per day.
According to Index Data
- 1.40% is ESTIMATED PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION LIVING IN MODERN SLAVERY.
- 51.35/100 VULNERABILITY TO MODERN SLAVERY.
- 18,354,700 ESTIMATE NUMBER OF PEOPLES LIVING IN MODERN SLAVERY.
As of now nearly 46 million people living as slaves in the globe, two-thirds, or 30.4 million, are in the region of Asia-Pacific, In that India grabs the top position, according to the 3rd Global Slavery Index released on Tuesday 31 May 2016.
This third world slavery index 2016, conducted by an Australian based human rights community Walks Free Foundation, which covered 167 countries, It reports that 30% increase in the number of people in servitude from 35.8 million in the previous index in 2014 to 45.8 million this year. (Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, is the founder of Walk Free Foundation.)
Those countries with the highest absolute numbers of people in modern slavery are India (18.3 million), China (3.38 million), Pakistan (2.1 million), Bangladesh (1.53 million), and Uzbekistan (1.2 million). Several of these countries provide the low-cost labour that produces consumer goods for markets in Western Europe, Japan, North America and Australia, the report said.
In Asia Pacific all forms of modern slavery were identified including forced labour in brick kilns, agriculture and the garment sector, child soldiers in Afghanistan, India and Thailand, forced begging, and commercial sexual exploitation, according to the report. Men and women experienced forced labour in manufacturing, agriculture, food production and construction. Women were also vulnerable to sexual exploitation, forced marriage and domestic servitude.
Large numbers of women and girls continued to migrate internally and internationally for jobs as domestic workers. While this offers an important economic opportunity, reports of abuse, exploitation and servitude persist, particularly in wealthy countries within the region where there was high demand for live-in help—Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Inhumane treatment of domestic workers including starvation and sexual abuse was reported in 2015, as well as.
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