Court order to clear Delhi’s railway slums will cause “great distress”, activists warn
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India’s top court has ordered the demolition of tens of thousands of shacks alongside railway tracks in Delhi, a move that housing campaigners said could plunge nearly 230,000 poor residents into even deeper poverty. The Supreme Court, ruling in response to an affidavit filed by state-run Indian Railways, said 48,000 […]
Indian rock quarry slavery survivors welcome stiff sentence for their captors
Thomson Reuters Foundation Survivors of slavery at a rock quarry in India welcomed a stiff sentence handed to the owner and managers, and said on Monday that the rare ruling sends a strong warning to other employers. A court in Tamil Nadu state found three men guilty of using violence, intimidation and debt bondage to […]