CHENNAI: Twelve years of bonded labour stole R Asha’s freedom, but not her spirit. What began as a small loan of Rs 4,000 to build a hut became a nightmare, trapping her family in a wood-cutting unit ...

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar police chiefs after media reports of ...

A man who allegedly forced a 15-year-old boy to work as a bonded labourer in Haryana has been arrested, police said on Friday ...

In latest case of abuse, paddy field worker, who had borrowed R2k last year, thrashed for working on rival’s land for money for Diwali Pawar with activists shows a copy of the FIR; Deepak Damu Pawar; ...

Vijayapura: The district administration rescued 10 bonded labourers from agricultural fields in Yakkundi village of Babaleshwar taluk on Dec 24. The rescue operation was carried out by a team led by ...

CHENNAI, India, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Promising to eradicate bonded labour for good, the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu said on Tuesday it would ensure strict enforcement to root ...

Acting on the orders of Additional Sessions Judge Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, Jhool Police rescued 22 members of a Hari family-including men, women, and children-who had allegedly been held in illegal ...

TARNOL, Pakistan, December 20 (UNHCR) - They have been called the building blocks of Pakistan, making bricks from dawn to dusk to help fuel the country's growth. But the Afghan brick-makers in places ...