Slavery: A 21st Century Evil

Watch our pan­el of ex­perts dis­cuss mod­ern-day slav­ery in a tele­vised de­bate mod­er­at­ed by Rageh Omaar.

In­dia has the world’s largest num­ber of slaves, among them an in­creas­ing num­ber of women and girls sold into mar­riage.

Some jour­neys start with ‘boyfriends’, oth­ers with or­gan­ised gangs – most end up on the streets of West­ern cities.

In this eight-part se­ries, Rageh Omaar un­cov­ers the truth about the flour­ish­ing mod­ern slave trade.

For the cost of a bridge or a light-rail­way sys­tem, 27 mil­lion peo­ple could be tak­en out of slav­ery once and for all.

‘I do not want to con­sume their suf­fer­ing with my morn­ing cup of cof­fee.’

This new se­ries gives a voice to mod­ern-day slaves, goes in search of the slave mas­ters and asks why slav­ery per­sists.

Far from end­ing with the abo­li­tion of slav­ery, the trade in hu­man be­ings is thriv­ing more than ever be­fore.