Dubai: Nearly 200 Indians in Saudi Arabia, who had accused two Bangladeshi labour-recruiting agents of duping them, were allegedly beaten up by the duo after they complained about their situation to Indian officials. According to the victims, the duo visited their site and assaulted them for complaining to Indian Embassy officials and social workers, Arab News reported. They alleged that the duo hired five persons to beat them up.
Workers also said that the manpower supplier warned that if they didn't report to work on Sunday they will have to face serious consequences. Workers are living in a state of shock and fear, requesting the Indian Embassy to protect them from further assault.
Nearly 200 skilled and unskilled youth from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh traveled to Saudi Arabia after paying between Rs 90,000 and Rs 150,000 to the Mumbai-based labor agent Fahad Enterprises, the paper quoted workers as saying.
All the workers were forced to do menial jobs at various industrial locations in the Eastern Province. They have not been paid for the two months after they arrived. Some of them told Arab News that they are living in deplorable conditions and are being constantly threatened by bosses....
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08:58 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Vatican City: Pope Francis led Roman Catholics on Sunday in the first worldwide "Holy Hour," in which participants prayed at the same time around the globe for those suffering from war, slave labour, human trafficking and the economic crisis. The Vatican asked Catholics to join him between 5-6 pm Rome time (1500-1600 GMT) in what is known as a Eucharistic adoration - praying before a consecrated communion host. They were...
06:20 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Rome: Pope Francis spoke out against mafia organisations exploiting and enslaving people, calling on mafiosi on Sunday to repent in words that recalled an impassioned plea by Pope John Paul II 20 years ago. Speaking off the cuff after his weekly Angelus blessing in St Peter's Square, Francis spoke about the mafia for the first time since he became pontiff two months ago. High profile killings by the Italian mafia...
06:34 AM, May 27, 2013
London: A 40-year-old woman, said to be an "illiterate" Indian, was beaten, raped and given out-of-date food and passed between three middle-class families as a slave for many years in Britain, a daily reported. The woman made desperate pleas for help to Hertfordshire Police as well as charities and other state agencies, but when police officers spoke to her, one of her "powerful and well-connected abusers" was used as an...
05:54 PM, Apr 20, 2013
The dialogue-heavy film offers an inside look at the often dry legislative process, and how Lincoln's push for the anti-slavery amendment could have jeopardized the end of the Civil War. ...
04:59 PM, Feb 07, 2013
A gang led by seven men of Pakistani origin bought an 11-year-old girl and loaned her as a sex slave to men around Britain for 600 pounds an hour, a British court has heard. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 19, 2013
I am always a little wary when I pick up a long-listed or a short-listed Booker title to read. It somehow conjures the image of some heavy-duty reading and while that is true for most books, it also sometimes happens that I tend to enjoy the particular read a lot. The same happened with, "Philida" by Andre Brink that has been long-listed for this year's Booker. A lot has been...
08:08 PM, Sep 04, 2012
"I have a dream", Martin Luther King Junior said on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. Delivered exactly 49 years ago on this day, it became an iconic speech, underlining Reverend King's vision of a just and compassionate America. Drawing heavily from the Holy Bible, it spoke of an America which would treat all humans equally, an America which would stand for peace and not for waging...
04:13 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Salt Lake City: A team of genealogists has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendent of an African slave - but not through the lineage of his black father, the most likely route researchers had followed and exhausted. The link, genealogists with Ancestry.com said Monday, is, in fact, through an examination of his white mother's family history. "We were surprised and excited to make that connection," said...
11:27 AM, Jul 31, 2012
New York: The sister-in-law of an Indian woman, who came to the US after an arranged marriage, has been sentenced to two years in prison for physically assaulting her and treating her as a slave. Rajani Jagota, 32, was convicted in February this year on charges of labour trafficking and assault, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said. "Simply put, this is a tragic case of modern-day slavery. The victim...
04:36 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Gdansk: Croatia is out, and so is Slaven Bilic. The Croatia coach, who had already said he would be leaving the national team to take over at Lokomotiv Moscow, ended his tenure Monday after a 1-0 loss to Spain in Group C of the European Championship. The 43-year-old Bilic, who played for the Croatia team that reached the 1998 World Cup semi-finals, said he did not expect to be leaving...
10:24 AM, Jun 19, 2012
London: Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman among the world's biggest economies, a global poll of experts showed on Wednesday. Infanticide, child marriage and slavery make India the worst, the same poll concluded. Germany, Britain, Australia and France rounded out the top five countries out of the Group of 20 in a perceptions...
12:11 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Poznan: Croatia coach Slaven Bilic could be forced to reshuffle his attack ahead of their Euro 2012 opener against Republic of Ireland as striker Ivica Olic is in doubt for the tournament due to injury. The departing Bayern Munich forward sustained a thigh problem in the friendly draw against Norway at the weekend, and it remains to be seen whether the Wolfsburg-bound player will be match fit in time for...
02:49 PM, Jun 04, 2012
London: A 56-year-old man has been jailed for keeping his son's 22-year-old Pakistani bride as a sex slave till the time she learnt enough English to call the police. The "depraved" man stripped the bride of her jewellery and passport after she came to Britain following an arranged marriage, a court heard. "He made her swear on the Koran that she would keep the abuse a secret and promised to...
08:10 PM, May 16, 2012
New York: An Indian maid, who had accused her former employer, an IFS officer, and her husband of harassment and "slavery", has received a favourable ruling from a US court, which approved her petition that she be awarded $ 1.5 million as compensation by the couple. In his order, US District Judge Victor Marrero "adopted in entirety" the report of US Magistrate Judge Frank Maas in which Maas had recommended...
06:03 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New York: A US judge's recommendation that an Indian diplomat and her husband, accused of "slavery" by their Indian maid should pay nearly $1.5 million as damages is likely to become the final ruling of the court as no objection has been filed in the case till now. US Magistrate Judge Frank Maas had said in a February 22 recommendation filed with Judge Victor Marrero of the US District Court...
06:34 PM, Mar 08, 2012
London: A senior government official in Britain had kept an Indian housekeeper as a "slave" and fed scraps for four years, according to a media report in London. 43-year-old Pratima Das's counsel Ian Wheaton said that she was forced to work 15 hours a day while employed as a nanny and cleaner for Shibani Rahulan, the Principle legal officer at the Department of Health. According to The Sun, Wheaton told...
12:47 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Paris: Google Inc is donating $11.5 million in grants to fight modern slavery and its hold on 27 million people worldwide, the technology company said on Wednesday. The donation is believed to be one of the largest corporate initiatives ever to fight slavery. Google said on its charitable website that its grants will "free more than 12,000 people from modern-day slavery" and prevent "millions more from being victimized." The company...
02:42 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Shreveport, Louisiana: A Louisiana woman believed to have been the oldest living African-American and one of the last children of US slaves has died at age 113. Mississippi Winn, an upbeat former domestic worker known as "Sweetie," died yesterday afternoon at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home, said Milton Carroll, an investigator with the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office. He said he could not release her cause of death. Winn was believed to...
02:46 PM, Jan 15, 2011
The age-old practice of
Bachcha Bazi is a cruel reality. ...
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