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BONDED LABOUR IN PAKISTAN
Ancestors borrowed money once… their children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren paid price for 130 years, until stranger arrived as saviour. Emotional videoPakistan bonded labour: A Pakistani family has been freed from nearly 130 years of bonded labour. Humanitarian Aaron Hutchings facilitated ...
Convert or suffer: Pakistan's Christian and Hindu children trapped in forced conversions and child labour ringsA new report by Pakistan's National Commission on the Rights of the Child reveals widespread discrimination against Christian and Hindu chi...
Kashmiri Pandits forced to leave their homes, BJP can't handle Kashmir: Arvind KejriwalThe Kashmir Valley has seen eight targeted killings by terror groups especially Lashkar-e-Taiba whose victims included non-Muslims, securit...
EU toughens stance on compliances with Pakistan under GSP PlusThrough a statement issued on April 21, 2022, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) appealed to Prim...
South Asian human rights body slams Pakistan over forced conversion of Hindu girlsSouth Asia Collective's (SAC) "South Asia State of Minorities Report, 2020: Minorities and Shrinking Civic Space" released recently, has de...
Prince Charles sets up children's protection fund for India, announces Katy Perry the ambassadorNatasha Poonawalla has made a multimillion-pound pledge in support of the fund.
Millions believed to be victims of sex trafficking in India: ReportThe latest report said that the Indian government does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it...
Muslims join Hindus in Diwali celebrations in Pakistan's PeshawarMuslims, Christians and Sikhs joined Hindus in a rare Diwali celebrations in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinc...
Pakistani court set free 97 Hindu bonded labourersA Pak court has set free 97 Hindus, including women and children, who had been kept as bonded labourers at a brick kiln in Pak's Punjab pro...
'Pakistan ranks third in global human slavery'Pakistan ranks third on a list of 167 countries where human slavery is most severe, an international rights body said today citing new data.
Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel Prize to be put up for display at Rashtrapati Bhavan"I committed the medal to the country today," Satyarthi said. The medal, in 18 carats gold and weighing 196 g, will be kept at the Rashtrap...
Kailash Satyarthi, Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai receive Nobel Peace PrizeSatyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014, sharing it with Pak's Malala, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, for their work on promot...
India is now the world’s slave capital: Global Slavery Index 2014The Global Slavery Index 2014 announced on Monday that India and Pakistan alone account for over 45% of total global enslaved population.
Labour MP Virendra Sharma welcomes UK govt's decision to scrap visa bond schemeThe Home Office policy was opposed by the Liberal Democrat coalition partners and several Government departments before being scrapped.
UK scraps contentious visa bond plan ahead of David Cameron's visitControversial 3,000-pound visa bond scheme for some "high risk" overseas visitors to the UK, including those from India, which was schedule...
British MPs asks Manmohan Singh whether India in loop on visa bondsCommerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has raised India's concerns over the issue with his British counterparts.
Britain to introduce bail-like security bonds for visitorsBritish Deputy PM Nick Clegg called on Friday for a bail-like system to stop visitors from so-called high risk countries abusing their immi...
- Land of the feudal lords
In Pakistan, a fundamentally unreformed social order has meant that the structural weaknesses have remained almost wholly unaddressed.
- US puts India, China on watch list over human trafficking
The United States has placed India and China on watch list for not doing enough to fight human trafficking and claimed that part of the eno...
- India rejects US human trafficking report
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have been put in Tier 2, which includes countries that have made an effort to control human trafficking, for...