Editing Slavery (section)

=== Bonded labour ===
{{Main|Debt bondage}}
{{See also|Money marriage|Chukri system}}

Indenture, also known as bonded labour or debt bondage, is a form of unfree labour in which a person works to pay off a debt by pledging himself or herself as collateral. The services required to repay the debt, and their duration, may be undefined. Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation, with children required to pay off their progenitors' debt.{{sfn|Bales|2004|pp=15–18}} It is the most widespread form of slavery today.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20504&LangID=E |title=Debt bondage remains the most prevalent form of forced labour worldwide |publisher=[[United Nations]] |access-date=July 27, 2021 |date=September 15, 2016 }}</ref> Debt bondage is most prevalent in South Asia.{{sfn|Bales|2004|pp=15–18}} [[Money marriage]] refers to a marriage where a girl, usually, is married off to a man to settle debts owed by her parents.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/nigerias-young-daughters-sold-money-wives-180921153424671.html |title=Nigeria's young daughters are sold as 'money wives' |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] |access-date=May 12, 2020 |date=September 21, 2018 }}</ref> The [[Chukri system]] is a [[debt bondage in India|debt bondage]] system found in parts of [[Bengal]] where a female can be coerced into [[prostitution]] in order to pay off debts.<ref>{{cite book |pages=11–12 |last1=Sleightholme |last2=Indrani |date=1996 |title=Guilty Without Trial |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=0-8135-2381-8}}</ref>