People working at a sugarcane field in Pandharpur, India. Western companies buy sugar from fields where workers suffer abuses, from debt bondage to coerced hysterectomies. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
IN the oppressive heat of Maharashtra’s sugar fields, abuse and exploitation are a grim reality that has long persisted.
For years, debt bondage and child labour were open secrets, but a report in 2019 brought to light a new level of cruelty: female workers were being subjected to unnecessary hysterectomies at alarming rates.
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