Abduction and Bonded Slavery of a Christian Laborer in Pakistan: A Case of Systematic Persecution. Report by Sardar Mushtaq ...

WASHINGTON, June 6: The US State Department said on Tuesday that millions of people still work as bonded labour in industries across Pakistan. The department’s 2006 report on human trafficking ...

Nearly 25 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery across Asian and the Pacific regions. Families in Pakistan can be forced into bonded labor, working in grueling conditions at brick kilns.

LAHORE, June 25: Bonded labour remains one of the most reprehensible and widespread forms of exploitation in Pakistan even 20 years after the promulgation of a law to abolish it, and therefore the ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Greater efforts need to be made to rehabilitate the victims of bonded labour into society in ...

For years, a mother suffering from health problems and her son lived in conditions of slavery in a brick kiln in Pakistan. A debt contracted with the owner after the husband’s death turned out to be a ...