Stories

Three hundred and forty families in one community are participating in a savings project assembled by the local Justice Hub. At the beginning of the year, the Justice Hub team discovered that certain survivors of bonded labor were struggling to meet their

Four minor boys had been trafficked to a cloth dying factory where they were forced to live and work around the clock with minimal breaks. They were physically assaulted when they became tired and exhausted. When a JVI Justice Hub and local

Eleven victims were locked in a house and forced to make fraudulent phone calls in a criminal scam operation. These victims were subject to physical and verbal abuse as well as sexual exploitation.  One of the victims had been lured by traffickers

As soon as the twenty-two survivors were rescued from bonded labour, Justice Hub partners got to work on restoring their rights, assisting them with registering in their local jurisdiction, providing immediate needs and information on safe migration back to their home village,

A minor girl displayed heroic courage in court when she took the stand to testify against her trafficker. By the time her case came to trial, Riya* was 14-years old.  As a child, Riya had been abducted from her village and trapped

On April 5, 129 bonded labourers were rescued from a brick kiln in northern India.  The trafficker who owned the brick kiln targeted individuals from a scheduled caste community who were struggling financially and offered them a loan in exchange for working

The fear of shame and ostracism from the community weighed heavily on the families of two minor girls who had been rescued from the grip of a sex trafficker just two years earlier. Thankfully, Justice Hub partners had stepped in as the

A kingpin sex trafficker was recently arrested after a yearlong cat-and-mouse chase. Known for trafficking minors into the sex trade through a web of criminal networks, he had evaded arrest on many occasions.  JVI’s Justice Hub became aware of the kingpin when

At the railway station, the girls appeared disoriented and confused, indicating that something was wrong. Instead of being in school like other kids, they were here with an older male, avoiding eye contact with others.   This unsettling detail was noticed by

Anju grew up in a small village in West Bengal, helping her mother with chores and playing with her siblings. Life took a turn when their finances began to crumble, and her mother remarried to support her three children. Sick of constant