Slavery in Pakistan
Slavery concerns about two million people in Pakistan nowadays. [1]
The awareness on this issue is limited. [2] Half the slaves nowadays live in India.
[3] Pakistan is among the countries with the highest number and highest percentage of forced labor. [4] In Pakistan, about two million people are in bonded labour. [5] Slavery is illegal in Pakistan. Australian mining billionaire and philanthropist, Andrew Forrest, has made a deal with the province of Punjab to give it access to a technology making diesel from coal for laws against forced labor.[6] Pakistan has forced marriage, sale or exploitation of children and human trafficking.[7]
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Slavery in Asia |
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| | Sovereign states |
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia
- China
- Cyprus
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Egypt
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
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| States with
limited recognition |
- Abkhazia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- Palestine
- South Ossetia
- Taiwan
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| Dependencies and
other territories |
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Hong Kong
- Macau
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