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Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die of malnutrition. When the bonded labourers ask for money for the treatment of sick children, they are beaten up, blue-black. Children die, young girls and women are sexually exploited. People cannot escape the debt traps and clutches of the brick kiln owners. They are hounded. Police are hand-in- gloves with the brick kiln owners. Against all odds, his organisation, Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), has stood up for the cause of the Dalit and Musahar victims. There is a new dawn of dignity and identity for hopeless victims. Here’s a special story, an in-depth report to combat and resolve the problems, on the occasion of May Day by Different Truths (DT) and PVCHR.
India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination (Reuters, 2016)
IDSN UN side-event calls for more action to combat caste and gender-based slavery (IDSN)
Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women (May 2015) – Minority Rights
This ends with me: A ‘safai karamchari’s’ dreams for a different life (The Indian Express)
Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
To meet the demands of global markets, Indian manufacturers have replaced adult workers with teenaged, mostly female, workers drawn from agriculturally impoverished regions and disadvantaged castes.
Harsh Mander on how Dalit children continue to bear the brunt of untouchability (The Hindu)
Manual scavenging is illegal, so why do states continue to support the practice? (Scroll.in)
Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
High Court Serious; Asks the Government to Respond
Dalit Woman Beaten Up for Refusing to be Maid – The New Indian Express
Three caste Hindus were booked for allegedly thrashing a Dalit woman who refused to work as a servant maid in the house of one of the accused.
The problem with slavery and the Sustainable Development Goals (Aidan McQuade – Equal Times)
They are unconcerned with the altogether more contentious questions that underpin the reality of contemporary slavery, such as state-acquiescence in caste- or ethnicity-based discrimination, denial of freedom of association and union rights to workers, undermining of rule of national and international law, refusal to establish safe migration routes for vulnerable workers seeking decent work, and the decriminalised international trade in slavery-produced goods and services.
Photos: Mumbai’s 30,000 unsung Dalit heroes are languishing in filth and squalor
A photo essay on the city's conservatory workers shines light on the deplorable conditions they live and work in.
Manual scavengers: fresh survey ordered (The Hindu)
‘Govt. will be asked to help Devadasis’ (The Hindu)
Dalit girl of Theni village escapes from “hell” in spinning mill (The Hindu)
The girl, employed by a spinning mill was brutally attacked by the mill owners after trying to escape – says NGO demanding the arrest of the owners.
Bonded labour in fresh avatar enters new sectors (The Hindu)
“Study finds that bondage has spread from farm sector to fast-food chains, carpet-making units"