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Children's future in Pak's Sindh not bright, worst forms of child abuse, b
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], November 21 (ANI): Marking Universal Children's Day on Saturday, child rights activists in Pakistan said that the future of children in Sindh is not bright as the worst forms of abuse and bonded labour are prevalent in the area.
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Workers in Pakistan's Punjab raise voice against bonded labour
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 20 (ANI): Scores of brick kiln workers in Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan's Punjab province, along with their families, took out a rally against bonded labour in the country on Monday, reported local media.
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Pak govt fails to implement bonded labour abolition law, say activists
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): Human rights activists have come together in Pakistan to express concern regarding the dire conditions of agriculture workers who are facing social and economic exclusion from the agriculture fields due to non-payment of their due by landlords.
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Indenture Labour Route Project connects countries with shared histories, e
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The Indenture Labour Route Project is a unique project that connects countries with shared histories and shared experience of indentured labour system, said MoS External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Friday.
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Bonded labour traps thousands in Pakistan, despite law against slavery
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Thousands of peasants in Pakistan remain entrenched in servitude under bonded labour as even after five years after the Sindh Assembly passed the Bonded labour abolition Act, the law is yet to be implemented.
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NHRC issues advisories to Centre on issues of mental health, bonded labour
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued three more advisories to the Centre, States and Union Territories (UT) administrations calling for specific action within four weeks on the issues of mental health, bonded labourers and migrant informal secto
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Unsatisfied with action of Telangana authorities, NHRC recommends release,
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), contrary to the initial reports from the public authorities in Telangana, has found that a minor girl from Odisha was kept as a bonded labour at a brick kiln in Hyderabad as her mother was unable to repay the mon
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Amarinder Singh slams Centre for spreading rumours about Punjab farmers
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], April 4 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday slammed the Central government for spreading misinformation about the state's farmers with its "grave and incorrect" allegations of bonded labourers working in the fields.
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MHA asks Punjab to take action against people giving drugs to migrants to
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has written a letter to the Punjab government based on a report of Border Security Force (BSF) wherein the force has informed the ministry that they had apprehended 58 Indian nationals from the border areas who were give
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HC notice to Delhi govt on PIL seeking financial rehabilitative assistance
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to respondents on a PIL seeking direction to the Arvind Kejriwal government and others to grant immediate financial rehabilitative assistance to the victims of bonded labour in the national capital.
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Delhi HC issues notice to Labour Ministry over long-pending back wages of
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Ministry of Labour and Employment and others on a petition filed by a man seeking direction to the respondent authorities, to expeditiously recover the long-pending back wages of the child of the pet
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'Country lost crusader of liberation of bonded labourers': Manmohan Singh
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday "expressed shock and anguish" over the passing away of social activist and former Haryana MLA Swami Agnivesh and conveyed his condolences to his followers.
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