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Nearly 200 Indian workers, brought to the US by an American firm to repair damaged oil rigs after the Hurricane Katrina, have won a $20 million settlement against the company for defrauding and...
Susena’s daughter Laxmi was 12 years old when she disappeared, lured by a trafficker promising a better life. Devastated, Susena’s husband left their home in a desperate attempt to recover their missing daughter, joining many others in the search for missing loved ones. This is just one of the many stories of a unique situation of poverty that leaves generations of families on tea estates in Assam, India vulnerable to trafficking and modern slavery. These stories have most recently been reported across estates owned by Amalgamated Plantations (APPL) - a company whose biggest shareholder is Tata Global Beverages (Tata), parent company of Tetley tea.
Every day, millions of children in India wake up with nothing to look forward to except hours of back-breaking labor working everywhere from stone quarries to carpet factories to rice mills. Children as young as five years-old are kept from school, forced to work seven days a week for up to 18 hours a day and end up with crippling injuries, respiratory disorders and chronic pain.
Call on FIFA to take responsibility for awarding the World Cup to a country with historic issues of worker exploitation and forced labor. FIFA President Sepp Blatter must use his influence over World Cup organisers to ensure all future World Cups are slavery free, including Qatar as a top priority.
“Are you Somila Tanti from Sonitput?” She nods. “Then you are free.” The photo above says it all. It captures the moment a father is reunited with the daughter he believed was forever consigned to a life of domestic servitude in Delhi. Unfortunately, Somila’s experience is not uncommon. She is only one of countless girls trafficked as part of the “Tea Maid Trade” from the tea plantations of Assam, India. Why is this happening? The short answer* is that workers in Assam are trapped in a unique situation of terrible poverty making them vulnerable to the lure of human traffickers.
Call on the Indian Parliament to immediately pass the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill and end child slavery in India. Millions of children, some as young a 5-years-old, are kept from school in order to toil long hours throughout India in stone quarries, carpet factories, rice mills, etc. Many end up with crippling injuries, respiratory disorders, and chronic pain.
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