India : Slaves

[size=12pt]Media in India are describing the country topping a global slavery index as "shameful".[/size]

"Sixty-six years after independence, India has the dubious distinction of being home to half

the number of modern day slaves in the world,"

says The Times of India.

The First Post website says slavery, though legally banned in India :

exists in the form of bonded labour, sex trafficking, child labour, domestic servitude,

ritual sex slavery, bride trafficking and harvesting organs....

It adds that Dalits (low-caste Hindus) are the worst affected from the modern-day slavery.

Hindustan Times