"A court in southern India has sentenced a brick kiln owner to 10 years in prison for trafficking workers and keeping them in slave-like conditions, in a rare victory for victims battling slow and drawn-out trials."
Indian brick kiln owner faces decade in jail in rare win for...
(Reporting by Anuradha Nagaraj, Editing by Ed Upright; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
Showing posts with label Southern India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern India. Show all posts
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AUDIO: The price of cheap clothes?
AUDIO: The price of cheap clothes?: In a report published today the organisation, Anti-Slavery International allege that Indian textile firms, which supply some of Britain's biggest high street retailers, are operating near slave labour conditions. Mike Thomson has travelled to Tamil Nadu in Southern India to investigate.
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