Half of the world's slaves are Indians.
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aww thanks @Loki
btw, I am eagerly waiting for Thor 2 where Loki would return
those hindus u talking already converted and comprise almost all the current population of pakistan !!
Nope if that was the case, today no one will be hindu in south asia, Muslims have had lot of time to kill every each hindu, but they didn't, that's a fact.
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I was wondering about this.
I think even if the Turks and the Mongols weren't Muslims, they would still do to India what they did anyway.
Genghis Khan, slaughtered Muslims and ransacked Baghdad.
But mahmud of ghazni, Timur would have still ransacked india. because they were part of the steppe culture which bred men like Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun who were part of a warrior culture.
This pure speculation though.
In terms of islamic civilization, the Turks made the military backbone and the Persans provided the intellectual sophistication that the golden age of islam projected
Could be wrong though
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Nice post, rational and make sence, i like it, keep it up !
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India's not-so-hidden shame: World leader in modern slavery
India's not-so-hidden shame: World leader in modern slavery - latimes.com
NEW DELHI -- When Savita Debnath was 14, two unknown men came to her impoverished village in eastern India, promising her a job cleaning houses for $40 a month in nearby Kolkata, but when she got there, agents forced her onto a train to New Delhi and sold her to a family. She was abused and forced to work long days cooking, cleaning, caring for two young children and preparing for family parties without pay or being allowed to contact her family.
“I worked from 6 a.m. until midnight or 1 a.m.,” said Debnath, now 15. “When a dish burned, she slapped me many times. I’d cry for my mother, but the mistress ignored me.”
According to a report released Thursday by the Walk Free Foundation, an Australia-based civic group, nearly half the world’s 29.8 million modern-day slaves live in India, including those forced into manual labor, trafficked in brothels, born into servitude or made victims of debt bondage.
Although other countries have a greater proportion of their population in bondage, India’s estimated 13.9 million enslaved people is by far the greatest, more than four times that of the next largest country, China, with 2.9 million. Pakistan ranked third with 2.1 million people. The 162-nation survey found that modern-day slavery exists in most countries in some form, including the United States, Canada, Japan and Western Europe nations.
Much of the traffic in enslaved Indian domestic workers is organized by dubious employment agencies that are virtually unregulated despite an order from the Delhi High Court that mandated the government to set operating guidelines.
“The placement agencies get all the money, and the poor girl gets nothing,” said Rishi Kant, a social activist with Shakti Vahini, a New Delhi-based civic group that rescued Debnath. “The girls are abused, mentally, sexually, physically. Officials don’t care, and sometimes even want maids for their own houses, [which is] partly why they’re silent on this.”
Nick Grono, Walk Free’s chief executive, said in a telephone interview that modern-day slavery in India encompasses a full range, including forced child-marriages, cases of lower-caste communities forced wholesale to work in brick kilns or quarries and people lured by money lenders to assume debts that can last for generations.
Ultimately the government bears the responsibility, in India and elsewhere, Grono said, for failing to enforce laws, empower police or provide social services that help stem abuses. Further complicating the issue, the group said, are poverty, corruption, caste issues and weak enforcement of existing laws.
“Slavery’s illegal everywhere,” Grono said. “You don’t have to run the argument that this is a cultural issue.”
In the case of enslaved domestic workers, middle- and upper-class families are often happy to pay as little as $33 a month directly to disreputable agents for 24/7 help, rather than pay the minimum wage of $125 per month for limited shifts and time off. The agents often ensure ties are cut between girls as young as 10 and their families in rural villages, their isolation made worse because the minors often speak no Hindi, fear the police and are penniless, leaving them with little way out of their plight.
“The family are duped, left thinking one day she’ll come back with some money,” Kant said. “And many employing the girls in Delhi are rich, powerful families, so authorities don’t enforce the law.”
In another case last month that Kant’s group was involved in, a 15-year-old domestic worker was found beaten, her face badly bruised, half-naked, with cuts and gashes on her head and about her body after working for three months for her wealthy Delhi employer. "I was made to drink urine and forced to sleep inside the toilet," the unnamed teenager reportedly told police.
There are signs of progress, said Shalini Grover, an analyst with New Delhi’s Institute of Economic Growth, noting a growth in part-time domestic workers who live outside their employer’s house, giving them greater economic leverage and control over their lives.
Though India tops Walk Free’s list in its absolute number of modern-day slaves, Mauritania ranked highest on a per-capita basis with almost 4% of its 3.8 million people enslaved, followed by Haiti with nearly 2% of its 209,000 population. (One nongovernmental organization estimated that as much as 20% of Mauritania's population may be in bondage, but Walk Free's estimate was more conservative.)
At the other extreme, Iceland was estimated to have just 100 slaves for a population of 320,000. And even though Canada and Western Europe ranked low on the survey, they are still home to thousands of slaves, while the U.S. had an estimated 60,000 and Japan around 80,000.
The rankings are based on a compilation of government statistics, multilateral agency information, NGO studies and Walk Free's own surveys. The organization provided drafts to all 162 countries six months ago, but for the most part, only developed countries responded, with largely positive or neutral responses. Walk Free hopes to continue refining the data in coming years, both to get a more accurate picture and to see if there is progress over time.
Walk Free acknowledged the difficulties in compiling and refining good data for the survey, its first, but said it hopes the index will widen the debate on reducing modern-day slavery.
“Our data is the best out there, but it’s a moving feast,” Grono said. “You have to be an optimist in this industry, otherwise you’d slit your throat.”
India's not-so-hidden shame: World leader in modern slavery - latimes.com
NEW DELHI -- When Savita Debnath was 14, two unknown men came to her impoverished village in eastern India, promising her a job cleaning houses for $40 a month in nearby Kolkata, but when she got there, agents forced her onto a train to New Delhi and sold her to a family. She was abused and forced to work long days cooking, cleaning, caring for two young children and preparing for family parties without pay or being allowed to contact her family.
“I worked from 6 a.m. until midnight or 1 a.m.,” said Debnath, now 15. “When a dish burned, she slapped me many times. I’d cry for my mother, but the mistress ignored me.”
According to a report released Thursday by the Walk Free Foundation, an Australia-based civic group, nearly half the world’s 29.8 million modern-day slaves live in India, including those forced into manual labor, trafficked in brothels, born into servitude or made victims of debt bondage.
Although other countries have a greater proportion of their population in bondage, India’s estimated 13.9 million enslaved people is by far the greatest, more than four times that of the next largest country, China, with 2.9 million. Pakistan ranked third with 2.1 million people. The 162-nation survey found that modern-day slavery exists in most countries in some form, including the United States, Canada, Japan and Western Europe nations.
Much of the traffic in enslaved Indian domestic workers is organized by dubious employment agencies that are virtually unregulated despite an order from the Delhi High Court that mandated the government to set operating guidelines.
“The placement agencies get all the money, and the poor girl gets nothing,” said Rishi Kant, a social activist with Shakti Vahini, a New Delhi-based civic group that rescued Debnath. “The girls are abused, mentally, sexually, physically. Officials don’t care, and sometimes even want maids for their own houses, [which is] partly why they’re silent on this.”
Nick Grono, Walk Free’s chief executive, said in a telephone interview that modern-day slavery in India encompasses a full range, including forced child-marriages, cases of lower-caste communities forced wholesale to work in brick kilns or quarries and people lured by money lenders to assume debts that can last for generations.
Ultimately the government bears the responsibility, in India and elsewhere, Grono said, for failing to enforce laws, empower police or provide social services that help stem abuses. Further complicating the issue, the group said, are poverty, corruption, caste issues and weak enforcement of existing laws.
“Slavery’s illegal everywhere,” Grono said. “You don’t have to run the argument that this is a cultural issue.”
In the case of enslaved domestic workers, middle- and upper-class families are often happy to pay as little as $33 a month directly to disreputable agents for 24/7 help, rather than pay the minimum wage of $125 per month for limited shifts and time off. The agents often ensure ties are cut between girls as young as 10 and their families in rural villages, their isolation made worse because the minors often speak no Hindi, fear the police and are penniless, leaving them with little way out of their plight.
“The family are duped, left thinking one day she’ll come back with some money,” Kant said. “And many employing the girls in Delhi are rich, powerful families, so authorities don’t enforce the law.”
In another case last month that Kant’s group was involved in, a 15-year-old domestic worker was found beaten, her face badly bruised, half-naked, with cuts and gashes on her head and about her body after working for three months for her wealthy Delhi employer. "I was made to drink urine and forced to sleep inside the toilet," the unnamed teenager reportedly told police.
There are signs of progress, said Shalini Grover, an analyst with New Delhi’s Institute of Economic Growth, noting a growth in part-time domestic workers who live outside their employer’s house, giving them greater economic leverage and control over their lives.
Though India tops Walk Free’s list in its absolute number of modern-day slaves, Mauritania ranked highest on a per-capita basis with almost 4% of its 3.8 million people enslaved, followed by Haiti with nearly 2% of its 209,000 population. (One nongovernmental organization estimated that as much as 20% of Mauritania's population may be in bondage, but Walk Free's estimate was more conservative.)
At the other extreme, Iceland was estimated to have just 100 slaves for a population of 320,000. And even though Canada and Western Europe ranked low on the survey, they are still home to thousands of slaves, while the U.S. had an estimated 60,000 and Japan around 80,000.
The rankings are based on a compilation of government statistics, multilateral agency information, NGO studies and Walk Free's own surveys. The organization provided drafts to all 162 countries six months ago, but for the most part, only developed countries responded, with largely positive or neutral responses. Walk Free hopes to continue refining the data in coming years, both to get a more accurate picture and to see if there is progress over time.
Walk Free acknowledged the difficulties in compiling and refining good data for the survey, its first, but said it hopes the index will widen the debate on reducing modern-day slavery.
“Our data is the best out there, but it’s a moving feast,” Grono said. “You have to be an optimist in this industry, otherwise you’d slit your throat.”
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What a shameful moment...2.1 million slaves out of 164 million population...damn.
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Speaking of Islamic conquest, not even the fiercest of Muslim warriors could match up to what the discplined British imperial forces could do.
As an indian, I detest the british Empire. But it was, and still is the largest empire known to man. it is a marvel how they administered it.
Me and you are conversing in English because of the British empire
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Modern slavery widespread in India
Modern slavery widespread in India - Hindustan Times
A new study has put the number of people in modern slavery worldwide at an estimated 29.8 million. India tops the list for nation-wise figures, with almost 14 million people trapped in different forms of slavery.
These shocking figures, released in a new Global Slavery Index report, measure debt bondage, forced marriage, sale or exploitation of children, human trafficking and forced labour across the world.
The index, released by the Walk Free foundation, an NGO, ranks India fourth in terms of prevelance of slavery (as a proportion of population). Mauritania, Haiti and Pakistan are ranked above India, in that order. The largest proportion of the problem is the exploitation of people within India itself -- from severe forms of inter-generational bonded labour to the worst forms of child labour to commercial sexual exploitation, and forced marriage.
“We now know that just ten countries are home to over three quarters of those trapped in modern slavery. These nations must be the focus of global efforts,” Nick Grono, CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, said in a statement.
Many of India’s enslaved have not been moved from one place to another – they are enslaved in their own villages. Earlier this year, the Trafficking in Persons(TIP) report released by the US State department had put the number of people in some sort of forced labour at an estimated 20 to 65 million : men, women, and children mainly in debt bondage to a local landowner, forced to work in industries such as brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories.The TIP report cites instances where women and girls from the northeastern states and Odisha have been sold or coerced into forced marriages in states with low female-to-male gender ratios, including Haryana and Punjab and forced into prostitution.
The National Human Rights Commission, in a report last year, highlighted other cases. For Example, in Meghalaya, extraction of coal in private coal mines in the Jaintia Hills region is exclusively undertaken by bonded manual labourers who have come to work in the mines from neighbouring states to beat acute poverty.
Some of the reasons for high numbers caught in slavery in India are the difficulty in accessing protections and government entitlements, such as the food rations card, corruption or non-performance of safety nets (such as the National Employment Guarantee, primary health care and pensions) and practices of land grabbing and asset domination by high caste groups. Some of those affected by slavery in India do not officially exist – they have no birth registration or ID so it can be hard for them to access protective entitlements.
Modern slavery widespread in India - Hindustan Times
A new study has put the number of people in modern slavery worldwide at an estimated 29.8 million. India tops the list for nation-wise figures, with almost 14 million people trapped in different forms of slavery.
These shocking figures, released in a new Global Slavery Index report, measure debt bondage, forced marriage, sale or exploitation of children, human trafficking and forced labour across the world.
The index, released by the Walk Free foundation, an NGO, ranks India fourth in terms of prevelance of slavery (as a proportion of population). Mauritania, Haiti and Pakistan are ranked above India, in that order. The largest proportion of the problem is the exploitation of people within India itself -- from severe forms of inter-generational bonded labour to the worst forms of child labour to commercial sexual exploitation, and forced marriage.
“We now know that just ten countries are home to over three quarters of those trapped in modern slavery. These nations must be the focus of global efforts,” Nick Grono, CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, said in a statement.
Many of India’s enslaved have not been moved from one place to another – they are enslaved in their own villages. Earlier this year, the Trafficking in Persons(TIP) report released by the US State department had put the number of people in some sort of forced labour at an estimated 20 to 65 million : men, women, and children mainly in debt bondage to a local landowner, forced to work in industries such as brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories.The TIP report cites instances where women and girls from the northeastern states and Odisha have been sold or coerced into forced marriages in states with low female-to-male gender ratios, including Haryana and Punjab and forced into prostitution.
The National Human Rights Commission, in a report last year, highlighted other cases. For Example, in Meghalaya, extraction of coal in private coal mines in the Jaintia Hills region is exclusively undertaken by bonded manual labourers who have come to work in the mines from neighbouring states to beat acute poverty.
Some of the reasons for high numbers caught in slavery in India are the difficulty in accessing protections and government entitlements, such as the food rations card, corruption or non-performance of safety nets (such as the National Employment Guarantee, primary health care and pensions) and practices of land grabbing and asset domination by high caste groups. Some of those affected by slavery in India do not officially exist – they have no birth registration or ID so it can be hard for them to access protective entitlements.
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if your self goal wasnt so pitiful, it would have really been funny 
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With Pakistan next to us diverting attention by its worse stats, allows us to get by..
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I know. Indian users here act like as if the slave problem doesn't exist in their country.
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With Pakistan next to us diverting attention by its worse stats, allows us to get by..
post the stats please its usually indian bs.
instead of actually stating facts they start saying pakistan is worse with out any proof lol. pathetic yindoo mentality.
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Pakistan is one position above us on this list in per capita or percentage terms. At least they have no right to rant.
The problem is that this survey treats household servants as slaves as well. This is certainly not the case in many places in India. Most of these people take up these jobs to get out of poverty and they do succeed. Many families treat them well too.
This is why the numbers in India are inflated. There is no slavery in India at least like the kind one saw in places like USA or South Africa till a few decades back.
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