Bonded laboury
How do you think the law should protect extremely poor people who cannot pay back their loans? Bonded labor is a special type of forced labour it exists only in Asian and less developed countries. According to ILO, forced labour is any type of work or kind of service in which someone engages involuntarily and under some implied pressurized threat of a penalty or oppressive measure. This type of labour mostly crops up in cases where financial deals occur such as loans, which if the debtor is unable to pay; they have to serve the creditor for some specified term. Bonded labour has been outlawed in Pakistan and most other affected countries in line with the UN conventions on human rights. However, according to the 2014 Global Slavery Index, 2,058,200 people are enslaved in Pakistan. The WFF Index places Pakistan at third position in a list of 167 countries where the problem of human slavery is most severe. The Punjab and Sindh are hotspots of bonded labour, which is mainly fou...