Bride trafficking victims are also bonded laborers.
me with a couple: The man brings her for livelihood |
Recently, I saw an Advertisement on TV and many
other newspapers where Indian Government claimed that India is now bonded
laborship free country, I don’t like to distrust our government maybe there is
no bonded labors in our country but there are million of girls who are being
sold for few buck and billion of people who are working in pitiable conditions
and intolerable wages, these are not invisible and easily found in Delhi as
well as its suburb, a form of typical bonded labororship or slavery is bride trafficking
where girls are being imported as bride to work in paddy fields and as a
capable unskilled worker for the
household, another form is domestic laborers where people used to place some girl as domestic laboror, the domestic labor never paid a minimum wage and they never get a basic rights while Governments always claimed that people are getting minimum wages and all basic rights prescribed by law.
household, another form is domestic laborers where people used to place some girl as domestic laboror, the domestic labor never paid a minimum wage and they never get a basic rights while Governments always claimed that people are getting minimum wages and all basic rights prescribed by law.
Bridal slaves : aljazeera |
Landlords and other feudalists of north India (Delhi
and nearing states) used to buy girls as slave who works as domestic help,
agricultural laborers and many other labororship, some time these girls are
imported for some incapable man who can’t earn his livelihood due to some
physical or mental reasons, family members and relatives of that man used to
buy a girl to earn livelihood for that man, the purchased girls work with local
landlord or some shop, and her owner or socalled husband always receive the
money against her work, the recruiter/employer of that girl never pay a single
buck to that girl as there is a fear that girl may runaway if she gets some
money, employers of these girls always give a small amount to her ‘husband’.
Tabassum: sold by husband as she was in trauma |
Rubina (name changed) a 25 year old woman is a trafficked
bride in Nagina of Mewat, she have a job card from which she can get 100 days
works in a year under Mgnrega scheme. She is also working as construction
worker, her socalled fifth husband is 70 years old blind man who purchased her 6
year back for purpose of domestic help and to earn some livelihood, his
brothers and other relative had procure the amount, rubina has 6 children it
means she is always at risk while working with Mgnarega or as individual pregnant
worker. Mgnarega officials never gave her a single rupees in her hand even bank
never allow her to withdraw money from her own bank account, her husband is
owner of her incomes,
Manju with her mentally ill husband who sold her first Daughter to |
Story of Manju is not different from rubina who
lives in palwal, she never touched her own income because her employer is paying
all money to her husband who is handicapped and he purchased her for permanent
earning member, she shares that her elder daughter born from man who purchased her
for first time was sold by this man to reimburse the money spend in buying
manju, Manju have four children including two daughters, she always scared that
her daughters would be sold or abducted by inlaws as her girls are like angles.
Ironically, Manju is still thankful to her husband who is not ready to sell her
again, she always try to make him happy then he may not sell her or daughters,
Its really painful that one girl tabassum who
was featured in documentary Draupadi's Descendants of PSBT was sold by her
handicapped husband as she was in high trauma. As an activist Im ashamed on me
and my local team who never found her again, she had a child and husband in her
native land but she was abducted and sold to a man in Nuh of Mewat where we
captured her in that film, soon after that film she went missing, her socalled
husband tell us that her father had came to meet her and she is on visit of her
native home later we were informed that the girl was sold to some man and he purchased
an another girl who is not willing to be rescued she is grateful to that man who sold his wife
as she was in trauma.
These are simple and plane case studies
representing millions of girls who were abducted and kept as slave facing physical
mental and sexual exploitation in open society and Government haven’t any
single policy or law to favor them. Even no NGO is addressing their issues,
these are modern day slaves and governments have to address the problem of
bride trafficking and exploitation of poor women at large scale.
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