Debt Bondage
Victims involved in debt bondage are forded to work to repay debt they owe to their employer, in which they are not allowed to work somewhere else. Sometime victims are kept under surveillance where their every move is supervised. Many are forced to stay with owners because of poverty and threats of violence that may be implied on them.
In Africa, the Caribbean, and South-East Asia debt bondage is used as a way of trapping laborers into working on plantations. In Punjab, hundred and thousands of Indians are forced to work under debt bondage in quarries and brick kilns where they do not receive much pay and if pay is received it is not as much. Based on International Labour organization there has been a estimate of 11.7 million people that are in forced labour in the Asia-Pacific region, majority of which are in debt bondage.
Debt bondage occurs mainly because of poverty. Money has a big part in this. Money is needed for daily civilization in order for them to survive. This causes many sell their labour in exchange of money and loan, causing many to be in debt in the long run. Debt bondage also occurs because of lack in education causing them to not be able to free themselves from poverty.
In Africa, the Caribbean, and South-East Asia debt bondage is used as a way of trapping laborers into working on plantations. In Punjab, hundred and thousands of Indians are forced to work under debt bondage in quarries and brick kilns where they do not receive much pay and if pay is received it is not as much. Based on International Labour organization there has been a estimate of 11.7 million people that are in forced labour in the Asia-Pacific region, majority of which are in debt bondage.
Debt bondage occurs mainly because of poverty. Money has a big part in this. Money is needed for daily civilization in order for them to survive. This causes many sell their labour in exchange of money and loan, causing many to be in debt in the long run. Debt bondage also occurs because of lack in education causing them to not be able to free themselves from poverty.
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The following stories have been taken from anti-slavery.org
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Balbinerkaur, along with her husband and two children have been trying to pay off her husband took over twenty years ago. They can't leave their brick kiln in Punjab, India, but with the kiln not working out of season for three months they will have to borrow more money to survive so the cycle of debt continues.
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Saruda's parents work as labourers in a field harvesting rice, so she has to look after her little brother instead of going to school. She also has to fetch water and firewood, and sometimes work in the field where we live to harvest rice.