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International 2008 Report:
Poverty, Discrimination &
Slavery: Reality of Bonded Labour in India, Nepal & Pakistan
http://www.antislavery.org/includes/documents/cm_docs/2009/p/1_povertydiscriminationslaveryfinal.pdf
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Bonded
Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLFP) - Article
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Pakistan - Bonded Labourers
Families
trapped in the bonded agreement all work together, the men and women preparing
the clay and making bricks while the children gather them and ferry the
building materials in the hazardous kiln area. A study by the Bonded Labour
Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLFP) a group of charities working to help the
laborers estimates 4.5 million brick kiln workers are victims of this illegal
custom. Some bonded labourers manage to escape, with help of activists or
police. In southern Sindh province, a community of freed labourers live in a
settlement known as Himatabad, which means
Pakistani
peasants carry mud and stones on their heads to construct a mud house for
themselves in the 'courage town' of Himatabad in the suburbs of the southern
city of
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