Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
In December 2016, India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), an independent human rights organisation, released a research report titled - Fabric of Slavery, that severely indicted the textile spinning mills in Tamil Nadu of practicing what the International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines as 'Forced labour'. As per the ILO Forced Labour Convention of 1930 (29), which India has ratified, 'forced labour' is defined as 'all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily'. ICN based its findings on the nine ILO indicators (out of total eleven) under the Convention that apply to spinning mill workers.
