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Articles for Bonded Labour

[Advt.] NLU Odisha In Collaboration With International Justice Mission Is Offering Single Credit Course On 'Bonded Labour'
3 days, 7 hours ago

[Advt.] NLU Odisha In Collaboration With International Justice Mission Is Offering Single Credit Course On 'Bonded Labour'

Live Law  

This is a comprehensive course that will delve deeply into the history, legality, and practice of combating bonded labour and human trafficking in India and elsewhere. The course has been divided into five modules, which combine interactive activities with case studies and legal analysis to ensure a holistic learning experience. This could also be achieved through case studies, discussions, and …

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Nine Freed from Bonded Labour in Mancherial Brick Kiln
1 week, 4 days ago

Nine Freed from Bonded Labour in Mancherial Brick Kiln

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A team led by the District Legal Services Authority of Mancherial, in collaboration with local police, rescued nine people, including three children, from bonded labour conditions in a brick kiln at Indhanpalle village of Janaram block in Adilabad. The families were lured from Balangir district in Odisha a month ago with false promises of Rs 40,000 per family for …

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UP news: Kidnapped on his way home from school, man reunites with family after 30 years as bonded labourer
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3 weeks, 2 days ago

UP news: Kidnapped on his way home from school, man reunites with family after 30 years as bonded labourer

Live Mint  

In a surprising turn of events, Bhim Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was reunited with his family nearly 30 years after being abducted and forced into bonded labour for several years. Reflecting on his experiences, Bhim Singh shared that he was kidnapped by strangers while returning from school and taken to Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, where he was made to work …

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Man who was ‘kidnapped as kid, turned into bonded labourer’ reunites with family after nearly 30 years
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Man who was ‘kidnapped as kid, turned into bonded labourer’ reunites with family after nearly 30 years

Hindustan Times  

In a peculiar turn of events, Bhim Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, reunited with his family nearly three decades after being abducted and forced to work as bonded labour for several years. Reminiscing his life experiences, Bhim Singh said he was kidnapped by some strangers when he was returning from school and was taken to Jaisalmer, Rajasthan by them …

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Survivors of bonded labour in Maharashtra: unshackled, yet the scars run deep
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Survivors of bonded labour in Maharashtra: unshackled, yet the scars run deep

The Hindu  

On a warm morning in March, 100-odd residents of Manavseva Project, a shelter home at Arangaon, 11 km from Ahmednagar town in western Maharashtra, are out in the open, basking in the bright sunshine after breakfast. Police Inspector Sanjay Thenge, who joined the Belvandi police station in 2023, says the prevalence of bonded labour in the district’s Shrigonda taluka came …

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Once a bonded labourer, now an entrepreneur
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Once a bonded labourer, now an entrepreneur

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: On a sunny afternoon, Poornima and her husband, after wrapping up their daily wage work, recalled their hard-hitting ordeal of being trapped with bonded labour for over four-and-a-half years, for a mere loan of Rs 20,000. A month after her marriage, Poornima found herself working hard hours daily from 5.30 am to 7 pm at a brick kiln to …

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What is India's status in US' report on human trafficking: Making improvement
11 months, 3 weeks ago

What is India's status in US' report on human trafficking: Making improvement

Hindustan Times  

The recent grounding of a Nicaragua-bound Legend Airlines plane, which was carrying hundreds of Indians, in France based on an anonymous tip-off that the flight could be carrying human trafficking victims sparked the debate regarding maintaining the minimum standards to tackle the serious crime that the United Nations calls “a grave violation to human rights”. The US has designated Nicaragua …

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Modern slavery: Pakistan’s latest climate change curse
1 year, 3 months ago

Modern slavery: Pakistan’s latest climate change curse

Al Jazeera  

As Pakistan finds itself in another unpredictable monsoon season, vulnerable farming communities face a resurgence of indentured servitude and other forms of modern slavery. This spring, I spent time with farming families across rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan, the two worst-hit regions by last summer’s super floods that submerged a third of Pakistan, displaced eight million people, …

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G20 countries including India are fuelling modern slavery, says new report
1 year, 6 months ago

G20 countries including India are fuelling modern slavery, says new report

The Hindu  

50 million people are living in conditions of modern slavery — a 25% rise over the last five years, says a new report. Among the G20 nations, India tops the list with 11 million people working as forced labourers, followed by China, Russia, Indonesia, Turkey and the U.S. Rights group Walk Free Foundation on May 24 released the Global Slavery …

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Adivasi Jallianwala Bagh: The Mangarh massacre of 1913 that PM Modi spoke of in Rajasthan
2 years, 1 month ago

Adivasi Jallianwala Bagh: The Mangarh massacre of 1913 that PM Modi spoke of in Rajasthan

Firstpost  

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recounted the tragedy of the Mangarh Massacre, saying it had not been given its due place in history. Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Modi also praised Govind Guru, who had led the 1913 uprising, saying, “Great freedom fighters like Govind Guru were the representatives of India’s tradition and ideals. According to history, the …

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‘Tortured, Starved, Manhandled’: 37 ‘Bonded Labourers’, Including 12 Kids, Rescued from Bihar
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Tortured, Starved, Manhandled’: 37 ‘Bonded Labourers’, Including 12 Kids, Rescued from Bihar

News 18  

In a horrific incident of bonded labour in Bihar’s Motihari, 37 people – 13 women, 12 men and 12 children — were found to be tortured, manhandled, starved, with no medical help or money at a brick kiln in Kesariya. Internal forced labour constitutes India’s largest trafficking problem; traffickers use debt-based coercion to compel men, women, and children to work …

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Supreme Court judge remarks on bonded labour unsavoury and out of place
2 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court judge remarks on bonded labour unsavoury and out of place

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:30 IST Justice Hemant Gupta of the Supreme Court has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Traffic in human beings and begar and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited, and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.” Before making such offensive remarks, the judge, …

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‘Land, Guns, Caste, Woman’ by Gita Ramaswamy showcases a fearless activist
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Land, Guns, Caste, Woman’ by Gita Ramaswamy showcases a fearless activist

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 27, 2022 13:30 IST MONTHS after being shunted out of Jagdalpur in February 2016 for writing stories that “tarnished the image of Chhattisgarh police”, I sat in the Dummugudem police station in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana waiting to talk to the station house officer about the murder of a pastor in Laxmipuram village allegedly by Maoists. …

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Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Seeking To Enforce Fundamental Rights Of Persons Trafficked Into Bonded Labour
2 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Seeking To Enforce Fundamental Rights Of Persons Trafficked Into Bonded Labour

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India on Monday sought the response of the Central and the State governments in a plea seeking to enforce the fundamental rights of persons trafficked into bonded labour. The Central and state governments' failure to ensure the effective functioning of vigilance committees, as required under the Bonded Labour Abolition Act, 1976 as well as serious lapses …

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Jaipur: Minor boy from Bihar kept as bonded labour sodomised, tongue singed
2 years, 8 months ago

Jaipur: Minor boy from Bihar kept as bonded labour sodomised, tongue singed

India Today  

A minor boy from Bihar was sodomized, hammered with iron rods, with his tongue singed in Jaipur. As per police, the boy was hidden by a couple as bonded labour in their bangle factory in a narrow alley in the city's Shastri Nagar. The child managed to crawl out of the room where he had been held and asked for …

Child Jaipur Minor Boy Bonded Labour
Union Budget 2022: Child rights NGOs seek increased allocation for elimination of child labour
2 years, 10 months ago

Union Budget 2022: Child rights NGOs seek increased allocation for elimination of child labour

Firstpost  

Other suggestions include enhanced budgetary allocation for rehabilitation of bonded labour, which is a part of the overall budget head of the National Child Labour Project to 2.46 per cent. Other suggestions include enhanced budgetary allocation for rehabilitation of bonded labour, which is a part of the overall budget head of the National Child Labour Project. Elaborating on the multiple …

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Look Into Allegations of Bonded Labourers in Border Villages, Submit Report: MHA To Punjab
3 years, 8 months ago

Look Into Allegations of Bonded Labourers in Border Villages, Submit Report: MHA To Punjab

News 18  

The Union home ministry has asked the Punjab government to look into allegations that farm workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were being trafficked to the state and forced to work as bonded labourers. The home ministry’s letter, dated March 17, says the Border Security Force has highlighted trafficking, narcotics abuse and bonded labour in the state, asking the chief …

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Not Allowed to Visit Hospital, Confined and Beaten, Bonded Labourers Lose 8-Year-Old Son in MP's Guna
4 years, 2 months ago

Not Allowed to Visit Hospital, Confined and Beaten, Bonded Labourers Lose 8-Year-Old Son in MP's Guna

News 18  

Eight-year-old Deshraj lost his life after his parents were physically barred from taking him to the hospital by upper caste men who had trapped the family into bonded labour since the last five years for mere Rs 25,000 in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna. In 2016, then Union labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya had also committed to rescuing 1.84 bonded labourers by 2030. …

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8-yr-old Dies After Bonded Labourer Parents Not Allowed to Visit Hospital, Confined & Beaten in MP
4 years, 2 months ago

8-yr-old Dies After Bonded Labourer Parents Not Allowed to Visit Hospital, Confined & Beaten in MP

News 18  

An eight-year-old boy named Deshraj lost his life after his parents were physically barred from taking him to the hospital for treatment allegedly by some upper-caste men who had trapped the family into bonded labour since the last five years for merely Rs 25,000 in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district. The family is now waiting for justice, unpaid wages and documentation, …

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Poor and desperate, Pakistan's dwindling population of Hindus accepts Islam to get by
4 years, 4 months ago

Poor and desperate, Pakistan's dwindling population of Hindus accepts Islam to get by

Firstpost  

Forced conversions of Hindu girls and women to Islam through kidnapping and coerced marriages occur throughout Pakistan. “Everyone helps the people of their faith.” As Sheikh sees it, there is nothing left for Pakistan’s more affluent Hindus to give to help the people of their own faith. “The dehumanisation of minorities coupled with these very scary times we are living …

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