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 ...

NELLORE: She carries no badge, no official seal, and yet district officials often wait for her before launching a bonded ...

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 ...

Reportedly, the boy stepped off the train to fetch water at the Railway Station but could not board it again to be with his ...

I’m a bonded labourer with a car, says Varalakshmi, standing proudly beside her red hatchback. “Can you imagine?” Varalakshmi, from Nochili village near Kannigapuram was once trapped in bonded labour ...

The Parbhani police on Friday rescued 41 migrant workers, including children, from an alleged bonded labour situation at a .

MUMBAI, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The death of an eight-year-old boy whose parents worked as bonded labourers has triggered demands for authorities to crack down on thousands of other ...

Shamim further alleged that a gang from Rajasthan was involved in trapping labourers through false promises and forcing them ...

The Taliban insurgency afflicting Pakistan has shifted attention from the country’s myriad social woes, among them a brutal system of bonded labor that amounts to a modern-day form of slavery. The ...

CHENNAI: As many as 25 bonded labourers from Chhattisgarh, including families with children, were rescued from a brick kiln ...

Authorities rescued ten bonded labourers from a brick kiln in Karnataka, following reports of exploitation and bonded labour.

The man was produced before a court and subsequently sent to Jhajjar district jail A man who allegedly forced a 15-year-old boy to work as a bonded labourer in Haryana has been arrested, police said ...