IDSN Annual Report 2018
Annual Reports, Bangladesh, Bonded labour, Child labour, Children, IDSN Publications, India, Justice, Manual Scavenging, Nepal, Pakistan, Publications, Slavery, South Asia, United Nations, Untouchability, Women
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Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector
Bonded labour, Child labour, Children, India, Other key reports, Slavery
Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector by Siddharth Kara offers the most comprehensive investigation yet into the conditions of work for women and girls in India’s home-based garment sector. Approximately 85 percent of the home-based garment workers documented for the report exclusively work in supply chains for […]
Report – Caste and Gender-Based Forced and Bonded Labour – UN 2015 Side-event
Bonded labour, Child labour, IDSN Publications, India, Nepal, Other key reports, Pakistan, Publications, Slavery, South Asia, United Nations
Download the report from the HRC29 side-event caste-forced-bonded labour June 2015
Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector
Bonded labour, Child labour, Other key reports, Publications, Slavery, South Asia
Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector is the largest single first-hand study of slavery and child labor conducted to date, and the largest single study of slavery and child labor in a commodity’s supply chain. Kara was the lead investigator and author of the report, which was released through […]
Cleaning human waste
India, Manual Scavenging, Other key reports, Publications, Slavery
“Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India
AUGUST 25, 2014
This 96-page report documents the coercive nature of manual scavenging. Across India, castes that work as “manual scavengers” collect human excrement on a daily basis, and carry it away in cane baskets for disposal. Women from this caste usually clean dry toilets in homes, while men […]
Inclusive Vulnerability Mapping & Monitoring of Post Disaster Response
Bonded labour, Child labour, Other key reports, Publications, Slavery, South Asia
Harvard child labour expert, Siddharth Kara, comments that caste is a key factor underlying child slavery in India. He says that,
“Every single child labourer that I have documented comes from a highly impoverished family unit and belongs to a low-caste or minority community.”
It is Kara’s second explosive study of slavery, this time focusing on […]