Submitted by crinadmin on
Summary: Throughout Pakistan employers forcibly
extract labor from adults and children,
restrict their freedom of movement, and
deny them the right to negotiate the
terms of their employment.
Throughout Pakistan employers forcibly extract labor from adults and
children, restrict their freedom of movement, and deny them the right
to negotiate the terms of their employment. Employers coerce such
workers into servitude through physical abuse, forced confinement,
and debt-bondage. The government of Pakistan is complicit in these
abuses, both by the direct involvement of the police and through the
state's failure to protect the rights of bonded laborers. It rarely
prosecutes or punishes employers who hold workers in servitude, and
workers who contest their exploitation are often imprisoned under
false charges. We call on the government of Pakistan to comply with
its own national laws as well as with international human rights and
labor laws outlawing bonded labor, to ensure that all workers are
allowed to organize and be represented by unions, and to prosecute to
the full extent of the law employers who have held workers in bonded
labor and those who have physically or sexually abused bonded laborers