Bonded Labor

"Bonded Labor".

How should the government protect the rights of bonded laborers?

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      Bonded labor is the act of enslaving a person as a bonded laborer because he has taken a loan which he cannot pay back. Bonded laborers are forced to work and are subjected to physical and sexual violence. Bonded labor is widespread in Pakistan. 

      According to the fourth and fifth conditions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights nobody can make us slave neither can we make someone slave and nobody can hurt or torture us. Bonded laborers are subjected to physical violence. Thus, the loaners are clearly violating the universal charter of human rights.

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       Due to bonded labor spreading quickly in the rural areas of Pakistan, the government passed an act to abolish bonded labor system. Where as clause (2) of article 11 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan prohibits all forms of bonded labor. This act is known as the Bonded labor Abolition Act, 1992.

      

      The passing of the Bonded Labor act shows that the government is interested in suppressing bonded labor but, in order to subdue the bonded labor mafia the government needs to take some more steps.

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      Firstly, the government should provide loan to poor people on easy installments. Thus, they won't need to take loan from private parties. Secondly, job opportunities should be given to illiterate people so that if indebted, they can repay their loans. Thirdly, the government should also repay their loans if the loaner is enforcing them to do so. Last but not the least, the government can also arrest loaners on violation of Bonded labor Abolition Act,1992 and of Human rights.