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A Delhi court has pulled up the Delhi Police for making a “complete mess in the matter”.

We need data-driven policymaking to counter human trafficking and bonded labour

October 22, 2025 6:31 pm

Without a victim-centric justice system response, including protection from intimidation by perpetrators and their associates, laudable policy initiatives will remain a paper tiger

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‘Paid Rs 50 per head, worked for over 14 hours’: After 18 months in captivity, tribal family rescued from bonded labour in Pune

July 04, 2025 10:14 am

The rescue work began on June 27 in collaboration with Pune’s District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) and Nirman Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Sanstha.

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Unsung Heroes: From chains to change – how Rupa and Poornima are breaking the cycle of bonded labour

March 09, 2025 12:01 pm

Marappa is the current president of Udayonmukha and his wife Poornima heads its handicrafts unit.

Torn between poverty and bonded labour, these children find no solace in laws either

August 02, 2021 6:02 pm

Officials have refused to consider them bonded labourers due to lack of “documentary evidence” or proof of debt bondage or simply due to a plain denial of the existence of the menace

February 25, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Bonded Labour

February 24, 2021 10:58 pm

It is happening within 30 km of Delhi — brick kiln labourers are being bought and sold all over Haryana.

Japan's legacy of forced labour haunts ties with neighbours

August 10, 2020 10:32 am

The legacy overshadows Tokyo's relations with its neighbours even today and, some say, helps to perpetuate mistreatment of minorities among its own people.

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‘Bonded labour’ at brick kiln: High Court tells Kapurthala collector to file report

June 26, 2020 10:24 am

A petition filed by activist Nirmal Gorana last week alleged that at least 50 labourers from Chhattisgarh including minors and women were being forced to work as ‘bonded labourers’ at a brick kiln in Sangatpur village of Phagwara tehsil.

SC issue notices to UP, Bihar on plea alleging bonded labour in brick kilns

June 04, 2020 8:46 pm

The Supreme Court directed the district magistrates of Sambhal in UP and Rohtas in Bihar to submit a report regarding action taken by them in "liberating 187 bonded labour victims working in brick kilns whose details are given in the order passed by the National Human Rights Commission".

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Eight years in bonded labour, tribals recall horror, now hope for new life, homes

January 11, 2020 9:05 am

For eight years, Kantabai Jadhav was among 14 tribal men and women, and eight children, who lived as bonded labourers working on farms, a cowshed and a rice mill just 120 km from Mumbai in Dhamane village of Pune’s Maval taluka.

International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Abolition: how it tells stories of Indian indentured labourers

August 23, 2023 12:48 pm

Indentured servitude from India started in 1834 and lasted up till 1922, despite having been officially banned in 1917 by British India’s Imperial Legislative Council after pressure from freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi.