Police in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have rescued 12 men who were allegedly being held as bonded labour at a small factory, sparking outrage across the country.
Bonded labour was legally abolished 50 years ago. Yet, activists estimate that lakhs of workers in Punjab remain trapped in debt-linked labour arrangements.
For over a year, 13 laborers worked at a factory in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, lured by the promise of employment, fair wages, and an improved quality of life.
The Haryana government has directed all deputy commissioners, district magistrates, and other field officers to ensure strict implementation of the revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has been constantly reporting people from vulnerable communities rescued from bonded labour.
Eighteen bonded labourers, including two children, were rescued from a brick kiln at Bevinahalli village in T. Narasipura taluk of Mysuru district
The team led by DLSA Tirupattur secretary J Nagalakshmi rescued nine bonded labourers from a brick kiln in Mittalam village, Ambur, on Wednesday
The two workers from Gajapati were allegedly confined and denied wages for days before Odisha and Andhra Pradesh police coordinated their rescue from Tirupati.
The court-mandated plan covers every stage, from rescue to reintegration, for survivors of sex trafficking.
Victim’s family had been trapped in debt bondage for several years; concern over implementation of post-rescue protection measures mandated under SOP
India has at least 100,000 functioning brick kilns, employing an estimated 23 million workers.
Fifteen years after Anti-Human Trafficking Units were envisioned as India’s frontline institutional response to trafficking
Following a coordinated operation by the West Bengal Police, Gurgaon Police, the district administration in Gurgaon, and civil society organisations, she was finally rescued on Saturday, officers said.
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Jaipur, May 27 (IANS) Rajasthan Police will conduct a month-long statewide special campaign titled “Umang-VII” to combat child labour, bonded child labour and human trafficking involving children.
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A total of 17 bonded labourers, mainly children below the age of 18, were rescued from two brick kilns in Namakkal district
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Officials said the workers arrived at the kiln about five months ago
Karnataka: 37 bonded labourers rescued from brick kiln near Hosapete. All labourers hailed from Odisha and were housed in a government hostel.
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The migrant families had been working at a brick kiln..
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A representative image of a worker moving freshly cut red bricks for drying at a brick kiln in Neyyattinkara,
Four months of intensive investigation and technical surveillance that spanned more than a hundred villages
The boy, a native of Kishanganj district in Bihar, was allegedly separated from his companions at Bahadurgarh
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PUNE: A woman, 31, from Jharkhand and her four minor children were freed from bonded labour in Mouje Chumb,
The workers who build the very foundation of India’s growing urban economy—those working in brick kilns,
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Over 100 minors who were allegedly being forced to work under exploitative conditions in a mushroom-manufacturing unit
From unpaid wages to delayed or missing rehabilitation, and frequent return to work where caste is central to exploitation, a study released
Most rescued bonded labourers have not received compensation or basic rehabilitation support
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Without a victim-centric justice system response, including protection from intimidation by perpetrators and their associates.
In July, while probing instances of forced labour in the seafood industry on India’s eastern coast, this writer met hundreds…