This decision and big impact on the saudi economy hides 2020 on aljazeera. For 300 years the most powerful nations honest group richer and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children with philosophy transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a law if it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Among the brick kiln factories a rule of the stone one of the oldest and most brutal forms of slavery continues virtually unnoticed by the outside world. And will in that game be goddamn bad it can indeed did lay him. Down have been muddled look at that get a call of the head. For those traps here this seems no escape. Lomas him to do a sequel a movie how to do that you know a shepherd is not even the common cause. And this slavery traps entire families sometimes for generations. Zindagi already officially have a card even though their case every time the other models and the comment i want to get in my building up on me. Then young to condi got the book came out that. This is the Cultural Capital of pakistan where centuries of opulence and imperial ambition have been expressed in some spectacular architecture. The whole war is a city with a grand history and today its still a city of enormous wealth and power. Its the capital of punjab state clean dust real heartland of pakistan and yet barely harf an hour from this beautiful setting to find some of the most shocking and appalling working conditions anywhere in south asia. Whole lives on the eastern edge of the most heavily populated province in pakistan where more than half of all pakistanis live. Outside the city limits the landscape of rural punjab is problems with earthworks and smoking chimney stocks the there are up to 5000. 00 homes in this province alone supplying the rule materials for practically all buildings in the punjab and beyond. But inside these factories men women and children toil through the heat of the day affectively but no pain many say they are trapped in these conditions for their entire lives and are subjected to a brutal routine of overwork and violence and. They are bonded laborers. In the brick kilns bonded labor begins with a cash advance the cumana presents the labor with a contract that compels him to work for however long it takes to clear the tent. The original amount borrowed rarely seems to form and often increases. The debt traps the labor and his family into a life of slavery. That could be as many as a 1000000 people in bonded labor. Including Young Children. And up to 90 percent of those who work in the brick kilns in the punjab are working to pay off debts to their influence. The practice has been condemned by the United Nations the slavery. Is therefore prohibited by the uns universal declaration of human rights. In pakistan itself bonded labor has been outlawed for almost 2 decades. And the countrys constitution forbids slavery and the use of children under 14 in factories mines or any other important. Saeeda fatima runs an organization that campaigns for workers and against the whole system of bonded labor. But the wilson hard. Thing is. That theyre all one to bill mantle down but theyre not going to go down a little can be a bit well was. The. What i got to give the mob would a little boy in court which would be having. Yet gotten out today is. Where. My dad going to. Ashraf became a bonded labor a 6 years ago having incurred debts to the brick kiln of 140000 rupees or about 1600. 00. He accepted the loan as many do to pay for his marriage. Ever since he as well as his 2 young sons and his father of how to work to meet their quota of a 1000 bricks a day often this leaves little time for rest. A bit out to get a few months out of business on from on a mill that youre going to get better so. As he comes over to your new heres how to get a company. That youll come and knock you thought it was time i would do i would always do this how do. You come to the clinic with us that something is not me and. Asked. Me something. Made in fact is how does that. Said i did im a senator bob dog here. They would have got their law. Well our manners in the digital signal i mean the holiday vittia shopping is that again that how many. Weekly wages are not paid to bonded labor as they meet their quota of bricks in an attempt to reduce their indebtedness. However many bonded labor is in the brick kilns on illiterate if they had been shown contracts they would not have known what they were signing and none of the laborers we spoke to had any idea what rates of interest were being charged for their tents. Not even death releases the labor from below it is then handed down to other members of his family so a small loan made several years even decades ago can still entrap wives brothers sisters sons and daughters. Having the opportunity to see a brick kiln. In close quarters what strikes me is not just the working conditions of people here but its also just the generations that are involved and its incredibly shocking to see not just one or 2 generations at work in forced labor but 3 generations a grandfather a father and the grandchildren with almost no possibility of ever escaping this kind of existence. But a few managed to escape. Deep inside one of the forced districts of love whole lives a Small Community of christians in pakistan christians are a religious minority under siege. Some have found themselves in prison in the words of to be accused under the countrys trillion plus community. And their political supporters have been murdered. Christians remain overwhelmingly illiterate and in the punjab many christians work in the brick and. The tiny compound next to a church is now home to khalid and his family. Until recently he was trans an immigrant having been drawn into bonded labor with the offer of an advance of 20000. 00 rupees or around 250. 00 he believed his work would steadily pay this of over the next 2 years. The motherboard saw it as a new car to get it. To do a song about the moon and the it a lot of devon on the. Old school and then use it of course to the. Community of good as a side of the Guardian Kong are good. But khalid was told by the protests that he would have to work another 2 years to pay off but didnt draw out his time of the brick kiln khalid says he was subjected to repeated phone of this. Show on an unlevel who love to win the show in a year that is so when in india dont they my dear here they can assure you mr gandhi got your land. With no means of paying back their debts college in this family decided they had to try to escape the british even though they knew they may not survive the attempt. In the us doesnt done a good to do good was a blessing of the distillate theyre. Doing a good job quite a minute then we get jobs fit into gunmen of doing the job who god gordon undated border think will need a little sister who got them. They chose to leave under cover of darkness but even after theyve made it to the perimeter of the bridge to mariners land it was still not safe. To get out of the movie i saw that a lot of other guys are over the pond obvious who got caught but i do on the whole paddle. Just dont put us on that will generally have on their this planet mint set of them died in this i was at the top padding on the posted this on down log me on the. Pilot now works as an Office Cleaner in lahore here is a weekly wage and is free to work where he can find it this is no escape from chronic poverty but its ease and. From the violence and fear he lived with as a bonded labor. Slavery in the brick kilns is not just the results of unscrupulous its a consequence of a social structure in rural south asia that stretches back hundreds of years one to stand why conditions in this industry a so bad and why those owners who abuse their workers are rarely challenge you have to appreciate the brick kiln owners a part of a much wider system one of feudalism where Land Ownership political patronage and economic power into twined the system of what seems to me to be very clearly feudalism is operating very healthily in the countryside of pakistan that you have the equivalent of barons who control large parts of the population and the land who hold them in hereditary forms of slavery used them in all sorts of different ways as well as controlling local police as well as controlling local schools its a its a kind of mafia. There is a feudal system in this country and anybody living anywhere remotely connected to a field of family even if theyre not bonded caves to these families then the kind of control that they have over this population is tremendous and nothing happens without the mosque being involved and they actually run the lives of these people so you can see how the double jeopardy applies to them firstly because of their economic status and the repression of the more powerful politically and socially over them and secondly because they are from an even more vulnerable get a group of citizens which is non muslim minorities. Feudal power can extend so far into the lives of bonded labor is that even the most personal of math is decided by the brick kiln own ends. Well up me with this dogma he said yadav give all of. The m. B. A pin with this in the heat of the. Dont get when she has one key he doesnt know who one case having been he goes to the devil. Big men put the egg of the cheeky how to get a scoop which would be new to look up now that autumn a hunchback the cake of all that make it fun by theyve been covered telic able to make or unable to eat out that new hooty. Linky doll will have been instead of. Showing upon your answer is a powerful businessman in london a from the whole he also represents all the brick kiln owners in pakistan. Touring a brick kiln with his own 2 wrongs he tells me that workers here far from being exploited are actually engaged in a labor of love. But now im. Committed to. Mr neons he sees the presence of Young Children among the bonded labor is something that perpetuates the system in a way that benefits them. To have been out there. Though theyre always going to cause the expert do it the the wall jessica. Electrician bob. But i mean its a very tough industry is very difficult conditions we can see that right where we are would you say to those allegations that working conditions in the industry is equivalent to modern slavery. That. May be inside. So the. But why has bonded labor persisted in the brick kilns overseen by missed me all these organizations despite the fact that it is illegal. The whole like most cities in villages in the punjab is built with bricks. Everything new and old depends on this one Building Materials the brick kiln supply these local markets nothing is explained. And this means that what happens in the brick kilns is much less subject to international scrutiny. There arent any overseas clients to insist that child labor cannot be nor are the enforceable minimum rates of pay. To the contracts of the illiterate workers sign when theyre handed their advance. And nothing to protect bonded labor is from a new and terrifying. Exports which. Can traffic. Im traveling to a small village outside of or to meet. She is one of a growing number of victims of traders. Desperation in britain workers and their families to pay a. Little bit better they take a lot of time going out handing out. Medical binding on his own they. Get to go to the new i dont. Log or die as they. Had a basic in a way that. Believes her kidney was sold in this hospital 4152000 rupees or about 1800. 00 there is no suggestion that the hospital authorities themselves knew that she would not receive a penny of your brain. Has locked away oclock in the night and then that. Hes out of. One another. As. Theyve got and then hes in the you are very patient. And they want to very much you would not. After 6 years in the brig ashraf decided for me to take the drastic step of buying himself out of slavery by giving up a kid. Anonymously remember those post about they can never. Come comparable. Some bonded laborers shit to gain their freedom through the pain only to find themselves accused by the tune of criminal offenses without the means to. Themselves frequently in prison. When you have all the access to the state institutions they have the power to use against the people that they are oppressing for instance. Crooners the police has at the behest of the factory owners and and chased. When they have tried to escape they have kept them in custody and torture them at the behest of foreigners so its not just people it is the pollution of this agency that has made that dynamic so much to do in their favor. The abuse in the brick. Street when it is directed at women. This is maria she is 19 years old married. Man almost. And its and you know the minute she did not you know the. Dominican the communists in the middle. Who died not 500. Can you tell us. Whats on them i mean none to see but me going on there because you dont know my value in a set up a but im not cynical that chopper to pocket and i will go but im not learning. From mr miyagi of the brick kiln known as association such stories are imaginary and malicious. Border but just arent. Going to. Get you will. Dont go to court they have what they thought it would take on. But i would lay. To you about them was there. But there should be no need to change the law because pakistani labor legislation specifically prohibits it bonded labor in 90929095. And without a bonded labor organ trafficking exposed taishan of children and sexual and other forms of violence might not have taken such a 5th home. But these abuses not only exist they seem to thrive in the dust of the brick kilns and then you station is appropriately titled its called the bonded labor system abolition act which means that bonded labor is prohibited and bonded labor is defined as as any kind of extracted on the basis of course without the intervention of the book without due as being paid and without. Any man a dating did. Freedom of. The brick kiln owners are able to ignore anti slavery laws because enforcement in pakistan is weak and the recent years it has become we still like the misinterpreted government i love only the. Inch the country. So that im instructed to come blanket. Buggers that is not known for despair for human rights. In the 1st question of the democratic rights of the people is rarely respected. Their rule of law is very very very questionable the barons are able to not just operate at the local level they can operate nationally as well and so they may make sure that in the Pakistani Parliament their voices are heard slaves are voiceless virtually no one speaks for them they suffer but they suffer in silence. According to the brick kiln owners abuses are an exception to the rule human rights observers like a ira mon see it differently. Go to examples out there. So bad examples are there is a rule. On the face of it abolishing slave conditions in pakistans brick kilns is easy someone simply has to enforce the law but the interests of feudal landlords and their political supporters have historically stood in the way. So whats at stake certainly the human rights of up to a 1000000 bonded laborers in the project. But maybe its also pakistan itself enslaving such a large part of the elation interest of feudal landlords hardly sounds like a successful recipe for a country to develop. With all that has happened to this country after a decade of being on the frontline of the war on terror abolishing bonded labor might seem like us. But for all the social change that would have to come with a militia it might be a key to appoint a future for. The next episode of slavery a 21st century evil deeds in the country built by slaves not for themselves and the child slaves had been in plain sight and its slums today. The health of humanity is at stake a Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. 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