Reports on conditions of Labour, particularly Child Labour, in the brick production industries of South Asia - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan...
India
"India's booming cities built from 'blood bricks' of bonded laborers" Reuters Report - 2016
PONNERI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When police raided the brick kiln in southern India where Siriya Banchor had been conned into a life of bonded labor - along with hundreds of other poor, illiterate migrants - the 48-year-old seemed more bewildered than relieved...........
This report features a Govt raid at a brick kiln near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is sometimes said that Tamil Nadu is a state where such evils as bonded / child labour do not exist. Not so, apparently.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-slavery-brickkilns/indias-booming-cities-built-from-blood-bricks-of-bonded-laborers-idUSKCN0WD01B Posted 11-03-2016
207 Rescued from Bonded Labour at Hardoi Brick Kiln, U.P. -
POSTED ON JUNE 8, 2016 BY LENIN RAGHUVANSHI
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Activists from JVI and PVCHR, with the active assistance of state government officials, rescued 207 bonded labours, belonging to 47 families, from a Hardoi brick kiln, last week (May 23). Here’s a report for Different Truths by Lenin.
Forty seven bonded labour families of Bihar, totalling 207 victims, were rescued from a brick kiln in Chandauli village, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, on May 23, 2016. The labourers had been working under conditions of repeated abuse and physical violence, in addition to deprivation without wages for seven months. This case is located in Atrauli block of Hardoi District (UP).
http://differenttruths.com/governance/law-order/207-rescued-from-bonded-labour-at-hardoi-brick-kiln/
Patterns and dynamics of slavery and bonded labour in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh: 2015
Findings from life story analysis Danny Burns, Institute for Development Studies, Pauline Oosterhoff, Institute for Development Studies Aruna Mohan Raj, Praxis Institute Rituu B Nanda, Evaluation and community engagement facilitator December 2015 ___________________________________________________________________________ This report summarises the findings of the analysis of multiple life stories collected across the Freedom Fund slavery hotspot in North India by NGO representatives at the Collective Story Analysis workshop 13-16 May 2015. We outline the major findings and key system dynamics that emerged in the story analysis.
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