It is very surprising to say the least that bonded labor, or slavery, is still an issue in the world. Bonded labor victims are still being found and released all throughout India to this day. While these victims are being released, they are promised to have been given compensation for their lost wages during their labor time. It is not… Read more »
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI (Reuters) – An assassination attempt on a minister has deepened divisions ahead of Pakistan’s elections, with an Islamist party denying involvement and an opposition figure blaming it on fiery rhetoric by the ousted premier. A gunman shot interior minister Ahsan Iqbal, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and ally of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif,… Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s poverty rate has worsened sharply over the past five years as the economy has stalled and the Taliban insurgency has spread, with more than half the population living on less than a dollar a day, a survey published on Monday showed. The Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey (ALCS), a joint study by the European Union and Afghanistan’s… Read more »
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India has not paid full compensation to anyone freed from bonded labor since introducing policies in 2016 to fight the crime, which included grants for rescued workers of up to 300,000 rupees ($4,458), officials said. People freed from bondage are given 20,000 rupees soon afterwards, but the remaining compensation is paid only once the perpetrators… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Hujjat Islam heard a fire had razed a Rohingya camp in New Delhi, his first reaction was relief: it could have been him and his family, their belongings burned to ashes, if he had not found a home for them elsewhere in the city. The fire last month gutted the flimsy shacks of… Read more »