Human Trafficking

Cotton Carpet Weaving

Did you know that human trafficking is not only for mature humans?

Yes,they use children too!

How someone becomes a slave? Contracts which are offered guarantee

employment, perhaps in a workshop or factory, but when the workers are taken to their place of

work they find themselves enslaved. The contract is used as an enticement to trick an

individual into slavery, as well as a way of making the slavery look legitimate.

Treatment

Slaveholders get all the work they can out of their slaves, and then throw them away.

Workers are subjected to frequent beatings and abuse.

They also suffer from a number of long-term health issues because of the grueling nature of the work. Plus they don’t get paid or they get paid a little amount of money which can’t provide them a good

life.

India

The researchers documented 3,215 cases of forced labor under Indian law, 1,406 cases of child labor and 286 cases of

human trafficking. There are factories and shacks where workers toil 10 to 12 hours a

day for six to seven days a week...

Permanent injury

…..Some developed spinal deformation after bending over the carpets for long periods of time.

Workers also experienced muscle pain, headaches, cuts and infections, malnutrition and psychological trauma.The workers identified were between the ages of 8 and 80, with children often

experiencing the most brutal treatment of all.

Great profits

In 2012, the U.S. imported $306 million in handmade carpets from India, representing 46 % of total

handmade carpet imports. That amounted to a retail value between $1.8 and $3.1 billion and these carpets

are sold in a number of major retail chains.Some of the workers talked with the researchers and told them about their condition and the money that they get paid. They are getting paid about Rs. 100 ($ 1.81 and € 1,64) for working 12 hours per day.

UzbekistanEvery year the government of Uzbekistan forcibly mobilizes over

a million children, teachers, public servants and employees of private businesses for the manual harvesting of cotton. Children and adults are also forced to weed and prepare cotton fields in

the springtime. Threats of expulsion from school keep children in the fields despite the hazardous nature of the work and receiving little or no financial benefit. Adults are threatened with the loss of employment, pensions and child benefits if they refuse to work.

Take a look of them,they work for their lives.

The ‘cotton’ slavery is not only spread in India and Uzbekistan. We have the top 10 cotton producing countries that use labour to produce 89% of the total world cotton. The first ‘prize’ of this kind of exploitation goes to China, the second to India and the third to the U.S . Uzbekistan takes the fourth ‘prize’ in modern slavery. In all these areas the cotton fields are watered with the pain of the

slaves which offers more wealth to their exploiters.

The survivors

In 2013 several child trafficking operations were undertaken by the police in Gujarat which resulted in the rescue of 39 children (20 boys and 19 girls) aged between 12 and 14, who were working in the cotton fields. All these children were sent

back to school.

Conclusion

People of all ages are being used for “dirty” money and the happiness of others that don’t deserve it.Some of them

have been saved,but many of them are still enslaved and are fighting for their own lives.They need some supporters to fight with them,to release them. We want to be a part of

this fight for their rights and our rights.

HOW ABOUT YOU?