The issue of bonded labour in India and the work of organisations such as Dalit Freedom Network are highlighted by Tom Brake MP and Jeremy Lefroy MP respectively in this Commons debate on:

Anti-Slavery Day

... Tom Brake: Many forms of slavery are alive and well today, including bonded labour. People can enter bonded labour for something as simple as the cost of medicine for a sick child, and it then locks them into providing labour free or in exchange for food and shelter. That can be labour that they have to provide 365 days a year and it can be impossible for them to get out of that arrangement. As many hon. Members will know, Dalits fall into that category. Those are peoples in both India and other parts of the subcontinent who can end up in lifelong servitude, which often gets passed down through generations.

Tony Baldry: How does my hon. Friend suggest that we deal with that? Hundreds of thousands of people are involved in bonded labour in India, but India is a mature democracy, although one to which we still provide some development assistance. How and where does he suggest that we exert influence to help bring about the end of bonded labour in mature democracies such as India?

Tom Brake: I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. The only tool at our disposal is the one that we are using at this moment: raising the issue and using that as a gentle encouragement to the Indian Government, and other Governments in the subcontinent, to respond to these challenges.

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Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con): Will the Minister give way?

Damian Green: I will give way once, but that will be it.

Jeremy Lefroy: I am most grateful to the Minister. Will he also acknowledge the voluntary groups that exist in the countries from which many people are trafficked? This week we have had the honour of a visit by Joseph D'souza of the Dalit Freedom Network, who will be in my constituency tonight. The network does tremendous work in India.

Damian Green: My hon. Friend has made a very good point. There are voluntary groups all over the world.

Source: Commons Hansard 14 Oct 2010 Column 579 / 596