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"Bills being brought to turn people into bonded labourers": SP MP Ram Gopa
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Speaking to reporters, Yadav said that all the policies being brought up by the Centre are meant to turn people into bonded labourers.
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Operation Vishwas: Rajasthan Police rescue 53 bonded labourers from Mahara
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Rajasthan Police's Pratapgarh District Police conducted Operation Vishwas, rescuing 53 tribal labourers, including 13 women and 40 men, held captive in Solapur, Maharashtra.
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"Convert or suffer": Pakistan's Christian and Hindu children trapped in fo
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
A Pakistan government report reveals widespread discrimination and abuse against minority children, especially Christians and Hindus. Issues include forced conversions, child marriages, and bonded labour. Despite urgent calls for reform, progress remains limited due to lack of political will
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Uttar Pradesh man reunites with family after 3 decades as bonded labourer
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
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.
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Pakistan: Women, agricultural workers bear brunt of Sindh's bonded labour
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
He stated that women in rural areas were being victimised in every aspect of life and suffering social, economic and political injustice due to the non-implementation of pro-peasant and rural workers' laws.
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Delhi: 14-Year-old orphan rescued from brothel, alleged trafficker arreste
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Acting on a tip-off received on July 12, 2024, authorities swiftly responded to reports of the minor's exploitation in the sex trade.
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Pakistan Army pushes Baloch individuals to bonded labour: Activist
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Baloch rights activist Sammi Deen Baloch on Thursday expressed serious concern over the atrocities inflicted by the Pakistan Army on the locals of Mashkay, who are being forced into labour camps for the reconstruction of the alleged army post attacked recently.
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"Nothing will happen to any citizen till PM Modi is there," says Union Min
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Scindia made the remark while addressing a program in Shivpuri district on Monday in view of tribal people of the district brought back from Karnataka who were forced to work as bonded labourers there.
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Chennai-based child rights advocate wins US' Iqbal Masih Award
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Lalitha Natarajan has worked throughout her career as a lawyer and activist to apply rights-based approaches to child labour. As a leader in the fight to end exploitative child labour in southern India, she identifies child victims of trafficking, specifically bonded labour, assisting in
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SC issues notice on plea seeking surveys for identification of bonded labo
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court issued notice on a plea seeking direction to concerned authorities to ensure that fresh surveys for the identification of bonded labourers are carried out forthwith.
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1.7 million bonded labourers in Pakistan's Sindh, 700,000 are children: Re
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): As many as 1.7 million bonded labourers are there in Pakistan's Sindh province, a non-governmental organisation said on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.
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EU to decide on Pakistan's GSP+ status beyond 2023 after review; NGOs, ac
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 13 (ANI): The European Union's GSP+ (Generalised Scheme of Preferences - 'GSP+') status of Pakistan is under review for the period beginning 2024 and the country's NGOs, academics, trade unions and civil-society groups continue to be critical of compliances on even
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