When we think of bonded labour – the most widespread form of modern slavery - we don't instantly think of diarrhoea, or any health issue for that matter. However, the research that IDS is carrying out on bonded labour in India and Nepal, suggests that diarrhoea and ill-health, poverty, loans and bonded labour are all interlinked.

Read the rest of this IDS blog by Danny Burns, Pauline Oosterhoff and Rituu B.Nanda on the relationship between sanitation and bonded labour