No one is refuting it ... just pointing out that the problem is bigger in Pakistan, so you should be aware of what is happening in your own home before pointing finger at others.
but aam bandha jeeee
u still do not get it right?
we are just simple pointing out to mind your own business
its not us who started this its you indians who are polluting the forum with
anti Pakistani propaganda
then you simply cannot expect from us not to fingerpoint back at you.
There are no universally accepted figures for the number of bonded child labourers. However, in the carpet industry alone, human rights organisations estimate that there may be as many as 300,000 children working, many of them under conditions that amount to bonded labour. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
The labour commissioner estimated that there were 3,000 bonded child labourers in the Magadi silk twining factories in Karnataka. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
Some NGOs estimate that the number of bonded labourers is 5 million persons. However, in a report released during the year, Human Rights Watch estimated that 40 million persons, including 15 million children, are bonded labourers. The report notes that the majority of bonded labourers are Dalits, and that bondage is passed from one generation to the next. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
There are 5 million adult bonded labourers and 10 million child bonded labourers. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
An estimated 15 million children are working under bondage. But other estimates suggest there are 15 million alone in agriculture. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
Human Rights Watch estimates that there are 300,000 children working in the carpet industry, 270,000 of whom are bonded labourers. (US Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Consumer Labels and Child Labor, 1997)
10 million children were in bondage in 1996. (Volunteers for Social Justice, Jai Singh, statement to the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)
LOCAL STATISTICS
15% of the 100,000 children working in the carpet industry of Uttar Pradesh are in debt-bondage. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
70-80% of the 8,000 to 50,000 children in the glass industry in Ferozabad are bonded. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
30-40% children in the match and fireworks industry are bonded. (ILO-IPEC, Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
Half of 100,000 girl prostitutes between 10-14 in Bombay are from Nepal and kept in brothels against their will. (Penelope Saunders, "Sexual Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Children", 29 October 1998)
A report prepared by advocate Mohammed Siraj Sait and NGO activist Dr Felix Sugirtharaj submitted in the Supreme Court in February 1996 estimates that there are some 1 million bonded labourers in Tamil Nadu. Bonded labour was found to exist in substantial numbers in all the 23 districts of Tamil Nadu and in over 20 occupations. The largest proportion of those in bondage were adult men, with the largest single group working in agriculture and the next largest in stone quarries. It was found that the largest numbers of bonded children were in four industries: silk-weaving, growing flowers, silver work and rolling bidi (local cigars). In the age group below 15, accounting for almost 10% of all those in bondage, there were almost as many girls as boys. (UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)
ADULT STATISTICS
90% of the 100,000 women in prostitution in Bombay are indentured slaves. (CATW Fact Book, citing Robert I. Freidman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption are leading to an AIDS Catastrophe", The Nation, 8 April 1996)
Over 10-20 million people are subjected to debt-bondage largely in India, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Philippines. (Debt Bondage: The Challenge for the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, submission to the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)
There are 15 million bonded workers. (UNICEF, Atlas of South Asian Children and Women, 1996)
GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
Domestic media reported that child labourers were being sold in an organised ring at the annual Sonepur cattle fair in Bihar. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
In West Bengal, the organised traffic in illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is a source of bonded labour. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
Persons sometimes are sold into virtual slavery. Many boys, some of whom are as young as 4, end up as riders in camel races in West Asia and the Gulf States, especially in the United Arab Emirates, or begging during the Haj. Girls and women end up either as domestic workers or sex workers. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
In the following industries, there is a reasonable basis to believe that products were produced using forced or indentured child labour: brassware; hand-knotted wool carpets; explosive fireworks; footwear; hand-blown glass bangles; hand-made locks; hand-dipped matches; hand-broken quarried stones; hand-spun silk thread and hand-loomed silk cloth; hand-made bricks and bidis (hand-rolled cigarettes). (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
There are element of bonded labour in the gem industry. Parents of 80% of children who worked full time had taken loans against their children's labour. (ICFTU, "Union Investigation Reveals Dirty End of the Diamond and Precious Stone Business", 1997)
A large number of bonded children were found working in 4 industries i.e. silk weaving, flower growing, silver work and rolling bidis. ("India court investigation reveal scale of bonded labour", UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)
It takes up to 15 years for girls held in prostitution via debt-bondage to purchase their freedom. (Robert I. Freidman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption Are Leading to an AIDS Catastrophe", The Nation, 8 April 1996)
Bonded child labour is evident in the Indian carpet industry. (US Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994)