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bonded labor

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Noun1.bonded labor - a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom, bondage - the state of being under the control of another person


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The topics include slave labor in Brazil, bonded labor in Pakistan, trafficking for forced labor in Europe, criminalizing human trafficking and protecting the victims, and improving statistics about forced labor.
The Provincial Ministers vowed to bring to an end the illicit ugly trade of bonded labor wherever noticed in the society in accordance with the article 11 of the constitution of Pakistan, Bonded Labour System Abolition Acts of 1992 and 1995 and the National Policy and Plan of Action on Bonded Labour.
Side bar Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage), and servitude.
 
 
 
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