By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India is revising its rehabilitation scheme for forced or bonded laborers to include transgender and other marginalized people, speed up court proceedings, and increase compensation for rescued workers. The new scheme "aims to address new forms of bondage such as organized begging rings, forced prostitution and child labor, for which females, disabled and transgenders are mercilessly used," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in the statement. India abolished bonded labor in 1976, but the country is home to almost half the world's 36 million slaves, according to the Global Slavery Index produced by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
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