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Violent incidents against a woman in India reminds us that there needs to be a higher system of equality for women in the country. Inequality based on gender is the norm in most countries, and must be considered for reform.

This website explains the child labor laws in India. This website explains the difference between making children work in harsh conditions and being pushed under the law if they are caught and helping out around the farm after school.

Millions of children in India work as slaves. Some children are sold into slavery while others are runaways picked up by traffickers. The traffickers wait for runaways at train stations and see themselves as providing a placement service.

This article discusses the Hindu practice of Sati, in which the widow voluntarily gets burned alive at her husband's funeral pyre. In the Hindu religion, people can only reach enlightenment if they are a female, so many females burned themselves alive in hopes of achieving enlightenment.

In this article, the author discusses how gender discrimination in India effects not only he women themselves but the whole country. Special attention has been focused on the treatment of women in India within the past few years, and the country has had to make some changes, but the inequality between men and women within the country is still far from abolished.

This article talks about Indian being the home to the largest number of child workers in the world. It explains the reason why many families have to put their kids to work.

Every year in Rajasthan, India, an unbelievable number of underage brides are married off illegally by their parents. These girls face severe emotional and physical abuse in most cases, and even though the marriage of a child under the age of 18 is illegal, it is still a prominent practice within the country.

Although becoming illegal in 1961, dowries still continue to occur. Indian women are in danger. Money prevails.

this webpage has a page designated for social issue like the others but is different in a way because it includes stories from all over the world including stories from nigeria and india.

The grassroots activists from the Self Employed Women's Association spoke to a panel on the informal economy at the ITUC Congress in Berlin. Founded in India out of exploitation of women works from the informal sector, the two million member coalition spoke of their hardships and interaction with their formal sector employers. Through power in numbers SEWA has gained momentum in their fight for workers' rights and pay equality. 40% of the global economy consists of the expanding members of the informal sector.

Summary: This article is about the different stories from victims who have been Trafficked. Many of them have been tricked, forced, drugged, and stamped into the different groups or pimps. These stories are from all over the world. Ranging from young teens, to adults.