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In 2022, 14 families (totaling 41 people) migrated from their home communities to work at a brick kiln in another region of northern India. Each couple received an advance of about $57 and agreed to work at a rate of $8 paid for each one thousand bricks manufactured. Since the day they began working they were paid no wages, receiving only about $9 per week per family

For years, Ranjan Manjhi and eleven families from the Musahar community of scheduled caste members lived under the crushing weight of bonded labor. They had been taken on a long and grueling journey in October 2022 to a brick kiln under the promise of fair wages.   Their lives consisted of 18 hours of daily labor from 4:00 AM to 11:00 PM, with only one hour

In the dim light of a cramped bangle bracelet factory in Delhi, Suman Yadav* leaned over to stir a meal in a pot that was too heavy for his small frame. The factory air burned with chemical fumes and his hands and face were stained with dye, but Suman moved quickly to avoid the factory owner’s ire. Suman had never been to school. Instead, he worked