America saw the end of slavery a century and a half ago. Today, according to a new Human Rights report, some countries around the world are still practicing slavery equaling to almost 36 million people living in bondage.

This new Human Rights report, released this week, cites an increase this year in the amount of people living in slavery. The countries that are still practicing these human rights violations vary from the English-speaking to non-English-speaking countries. This modern day slavery is not with whips and chains, but with money, and physical and sexual abuse.

Walk Free Foundation, the Australian-based human rights organization that has conducted this research, cites that the countries where modern-day slavery is practiced include Haiti, Qatar, India, Mauritania and Uzbekistan. According to the Walk Free Foundation, nearly 30 million people were in slavery last year, and now it is 35.8 million people in bondage, Huffington Post reported.

The human rights organization says that with better data collection this year it was able to see the increase. The slavery that Walk Free Foundation is referring to is born into servitude, human trafficking for sex work, trapped in debt bondage or exploitation for forced labor, Huffington Post reported.

The data covered 167 countries, and found that India had the largest number of slaves. Out of the 1.25 billion people living in India, 1.25 million were victims of slavery; it ranged from bondage, prostitution, to bounded labor, Huffington Post reported. Mauritania, located in the Maghreb region of western North Africa, also saw a high prevalence of slavery. And, Qatar, a sovereign Arab country located in Western Asia, rose from 96th place to become the fourth-worst country to practice slavery.

While the report might not capture all of the details of modern-day slavery, it does highlight one contributing factor: populations that are living in war or civil unrest and conflict, especially people like refugees, are all at risk, the Chicago Tribune reported. Countries such as Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic were all in the top 10 of slavery's prevalence.

Can the government of those affected countries help? The report says yes.

The aforementioned Mauritania is trying to combat slavery. It is with the help of modern-day abolitionists like Biram Dah Abeid and others in that African region who are addressing the crisis head on and at great risk, the Chicago Tribune reported. In March of this year, the government adopted a U.N. plan to eradicate slavery.

Almost all of the countries all over the world have laws that criminalize slavery, with the exception of North Korea. But the Walk Free Foundation believes that those governments should be doing more, Daily Mail reported.  

"What the results show is that a lot is being done on paper but it's not necessarily translating into results," Fiona David, the head of global research for the Walk Free Foundation, said. "Most countries got 50 percent or less when we looked at the strength of their victim assistance regime. It's also striking that out of 167 countries we could only find three where governments have put things in place on supply chains [of slavery]."

The three countries that have things put in place to end slavery are Australia, Brazil and the U.S., Daily Mail reported.  

There are 10 countries that still account for 71 percent of the world's slavery. Besides India, China has the most reported slaves with 3.2 million; Pakistan follows at 2.1 million slaves, and Uzbekistan has 1.2 million slaves.

Russia has 1.05 million people in slavery, and in Nigeria there are 834,200 people living in bondage. The Democratic Republic of Congo has 762,900 people in slavery. Indonesia at 714,100 slaves; Bangladesh at 680,900; and Thailand, at 475,300, also have a significant number of people in slavery, the Huffington Post reported.