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Amazon sellers linked to Pakistan's exploitative garment factories: A dist
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
A report by Labour Behind the Label exposes widespread labour abuses in Pakistan's garment factories supplying Amazon sellers. Workers face forced overtime, wage theft, and poor conditions, while weak enforcement and Amazon's lax oversight allow exploitation to continue unchecked.
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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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"More than 6 lakh people will be able to travel daily through this yellow
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Union Minister of State (MoS) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Labour and Employment, Shobha Karandlaje, on Sunday, said that with the inauguration of the new metro line in Bengaluru, more than 6 lakh people will be able to travel daily through this yellow metro line.
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Maharashtra: Over a dozen injured in Nagpur structure collapse; 9 rescued,
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
"When RCC (Reinforced Cement Concrete) for slab was being put in, it collapsed. The labourers who were working suffered minor injuries. They were 15-16 in number."
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'Cut us open and we bleed like them': Amnesty slams Pakistan's discriminat
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Amnesty International's report reveals severe caste and religion-based discrimination against Pakistan's sanitation workers, mainly Christians and Hindus. They face hazardous work, low pay, job insecurity, and social stigma, with little legal protection, highlighting systemic human rights
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BRO working to restore connectivity in disaster-hit Uttarkashi; DG says "c
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Following a series of flash floods and a massive mudslide that struck Dharali village and the Indian Army's South Harsil Camp, left eight Army personnel and 30-40 labourers missing as per Lt Gen Anindya Sengupta, Army Commander of the Central Command.
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UK faces pressure to ban imports linked to Uyghur forced labour in green t
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
According to the submission, reviewed and cited extensively by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), the UK's efforts to diversify supply chains for critical minerals, vital to the green energy transition, must be underpinned by a clear human rights framework.
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INDIA Bloc continues protest in Parliament against voter list revision in
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, along with other Opposition MPs, joined the protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the "arrest of labourers in BJP-ruled states" outside Parliament.
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Kmart faces Federal Court action over alleged links to Uyghur Forced Labou
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
A Uyghur group in Australia is suing Kmart, alleging links to forced labour in China's Xinjiang region. The case seeks proof of Kmart's ethical sourcing claims, as critics highlight gaps in Australia's Modern Slavery Act. Kmart denies wrongdoing, citing its long-standing Ethical Sourcing Pro
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Uyghur groups welcome US Bill to sanction perpetrators of ongoing genocide
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Five Uyghur rights groups in Washington welcomed the bipartisan Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act, which targets Chinese officials and entities linked to repression, forced labour, and organ harvesting, and urges swift passage to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable an
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India-US "actively" discussing agriculture sector for bilateral trade agre
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
India is actively involved in the discussions on the India-USA Bilateral Trade Agreement, which aims at expanding trade and investment and deepening the US-India trade relationship to promote growth that ensures fairness, national security and job creation, especially in the labour-intensive
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World Uyghur Congress highlights global pushback against China's Uyghur re
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The brief pointed to increased political engagement in the UK, legal advancements in Argentina, and mounting concern over forced labour linked to European imports.
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