Today, the six million Bagania – tea plantation workers and their families – constitute more than a fifth of Assam’s population ... Every day, we work from seven in the morning till four ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Freedom Project amplifies the voices of ... CNN highlighted the plight of girls growing up on tea plantations in Assam, India, who are targeted by human traffickers.

Workers of a tea plantation in Cachar district ... said the situation in Doloo was normal and work to clear the area for the airport project was progressing smoothly. There are speculations ...

Unions in Assam say many workers are paid below minimum wage and live in poverty on the plantations where they work CHENNAI, India, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of tea ...

While the northeastern India state of Assam accounts ... Kenyan plantations lay off their tea factory employees before they complete three months’ work and then rehire them as casuals in order ...

The forthcoming release of a World Bank investigation into rights violations of tea plantation workers in Assam represents an ... investigates complaints from project-affected people alleging ...

Kushal Konwar Sarma, noted elephant veterinarian and veteran conservationist, explained that vast swathes of forests were alienated for tea plantations ... the Assam Haathi Project adds that ...

Remember Chameli Memsaab, the 1975 Assamese drama film directed by Abdul Majid? Like that love story, set in a tea estate in Assam, between a British tea estate owner and local tea garden worker, Ann ...

but those aromatic leaves can mean injury—even death—for Asian elephants roaming Indian tea gardens, or plantations, in the northeastern state of Assam. Tea is the second most popular drink in ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Freedom Project amplifies the voices of ... CNN highlighted the plight of girls growing up on tea plantations in Assam, India, who are targeted by human traffickers.