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“Some days it’s so hot that our skin burns, or we have flood.” Renuka Pawar watches over her infant in her kopi, a makeshift home where she lives 6 months a year near sugarcane fields. #Climate risks are rising for #migrant workers. @iyerkavi

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“We’ve lived like this for generations.” Renuka Pawar does not think better #housing is possible for #Maharashtra’s #sugarcane #migrantworkers. A young mother to a months old infant, she has no access to toilets or running water, cooks on a wood hearth outdoors.

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“We had loans, we needed the money.” Alka Wagh of Malegaon, 400 km from their work site in Jalna, on why she had her son marry a 17-year-old girl whose family they paid Rs 15,000. An additional couple is an additional income during the annual #sugarcane harvest.

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Alka Wagh, her husband, her son and a teenage daughter-in-law were two koytas, the husband-wife  unit of labour that is given advance payments by labour contractors for the #sugarcane harvest. To work off Rs 2 lakh advance, they worked 12 to 15 hrs a day for 5 months.

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India has dropped 11 places in the World Press Freedom Index, from 150 in 2022 to 161 in 2023
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Prabhakar Bhagyawant got 30 stitches after he fell 20 ft  from a tractor transporting #sugarcane. He lost 45 work days, couldn’t work off a an advance payment. @iyerkavi on a debt bondage system that persists in #India's richest state economy

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“She won’t stop crying”

With no local lawyer ready to fight her case & threats allegedly made to Delhi lawyers, family of traumatised Muslim law student narrates how she spent 54 days in jail before #SupremeCourt gave bail. @Samriddhi0809 reports

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Yesterday, a #SupremeCourt bench led by the Chief Justice gave the home ministry 2 weeks—first ordered in Sept 2022—to collate data on cases filed & action taken against attacks on #Christians.
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“I can make Rs 25000 a month, if I work 15 hours a day, 7 days a week.” Delivery boy Mohammed Arif Khan gets no provident fund, no paid leave, no growth prospects. @anweganguly & @touhid_rahat on working conditions of #GigWorkers

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