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TopicBonded labour

Topic: bonded labour

9-yr-old boy’s secret burial exposes Andhra bonded labour horror, and a tribe ensnared for decades

A post-mortem conducted after his body was exhumed revealed 9-yr-old Venkatesh sustained blunt force injury to the head inflicted by a 'heavy weapon', and ante-mortem skull fractures.

From Sitamarhi to Sadar Bazar, a mother’s fight to rescue 11-yr-old son from bonded labour

On 3 March, Delhi police personnel embarked on an operation to rescue two minor boys working as bonded labourers in Sadar Bazar. They found another 10 boys in need of rescue.

Trapped, raped repeatedly & forced into bonded labour, 18-yr-old MP girl’s Delhi dream turns nightmare

She was rescued from a residence in Rajouri Garden on 27 February and issued an official release certificate, formally freeing her from bonded labour. However, an FIR is yet to be filed.

50 million slaves still exist but prompt action needs reliable data

The UN’s 2022 global estimate only surveyed 75 out of 118 countries on forced labour.

‘Not slaves but no better off’ — why govt wants ‘girmitiya’ labourers’ story taught in schools

Indentured labourers, or ‘girmitiyas’, were transported from British India to work on plantations in far-off countries that are now home to large ethnic Indian populations.

Choice of work, education, better income needed for bondage survivors to remain free — study

The study involved 88 respondents, including children, who are survivors of human trafficking in UP and Bihar and have been reintegrated with help from NGOs.

Swami Agnivesh, saffron-clad social justice activist, dies at 80 of multiple organ failure

Swami Agnivesh, who tackled bonded labour and other social issues and was a leading light of the Arya Samaj, was suffering from liver cirrhosis.

How 45 NGOs and $15 million brought down bonded labour in UP, Bihar & Tamil Nadu

London-based Freedom Fund, along with Indian NGOs, helped cut percentage of families in bonded labour from 56% to 11% in the three states.

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