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What is forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking

By HRDI Admin July 18, 2020Articles, Forced Labour, ILO Conventions

What is forced labour? Forced labour can be understood as work that is performed involuntarily and under the menace of any penalty. It refers to situations in which persons are coerced to work…

International Labour Standards on Migrant workers

By HRDI Admin July 18, 2020Articles, ILO Conventions, Migrant Workers, MIGRANTS

The growing pace of economic globalization has created more migrant workers than ever before. Unemployment and increasing poverty have prompted many workers in developing countries to seek work elsewhere. It…

Breaking Free: Rehabilitating Manual Scavengers

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Declarations, Documents, Manual Scavenging

Twenty former manual scavengers from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh formed a self-help group, leased a local village pond and began fish farming, increasing their incomes fivefold. Manual scavenging refers to the…

Why manual scavengers in India haven’t got their rights despite laws, judiciary intervention

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Manual Scavenging, Rights of Workers

The absence of a statutory obligation to provide sanitation services by state agencies creates a situation where the rights of manual scavengers hang in the air. ARKAJA SINGH and ADITYA UNNIKRISHNAN 26 February,…

Cleaning Human Waste “Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Manual Scavenging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOup9Qy7nU Bhangi: Literally, “broken identity,” a derogatory name used to refer to people from the caste traditionally responsible for manual scavenging. Dalit: Literally “broken people,” a self-designated term for so-called “untouchables” who…

Sewers are gas chambers where manual scavengers are sent to die: SC

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Manual Scavenging

Apex court comes down heavily on govt on the issue of manual scavenging Sewers in India were like gas chambers where manual scavengers were sent to die, the Supreme Court…

A Supreme Court Bench made remarks on manual scavenging and untouchability while hearing the Centre’s plea seeking review of its last year’s verdict on SC/ST Act.

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Manual Scavenging

Expressing serious concern over people dying during manual scavenging and sewage cleaning in India, the Supreme Court Wednesday said nowhere in the world people are sent to “gas chambers to…

For Indian migrants in the Gulf it is a financial rather than a health crisis

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Indian Workers in Gulf Countries, Rights of Workers

What awaits the millions of Indian migrants in the Gulf who lack much needed access to healthcare and financial security?S. Irudaya RajanH. Arokkiaraj20 April 2020 Construction workers in Dubai | Picture by…

“As per the information given by Missions and Posts in the Gulf countries, as on 30.6.2019, Kuwait tops the list with the highest number of complaints (2377).”

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Indian Workers in Gulf Countries, Rights of Workers

As many as 9,771 complaints have been filed based on various reasons by Indian workers in Gulf countries this year, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Wednesday. "As…

Saudi Arabia tops Indian Gulf workers’ ‘victimisation’ list: MEA

By HRDI Admin July 17, 2020Articles, Indian Workers in Gulf Countries, Latest News, Rights of Workers

77,155 complaints were registered by Indians working in Gulf countries. File Photo Of the total complaints of ‘victimisation’ registered by Indian workers in Gulf countries, 36 per cent are from…