Q: How do you think the law should protect extremely poor people who cannot pay back their loans?
Debt bondage occurs when a person is forced to work to pay off a debt. They are tricked into working for little or no pay, with no control over their debt. Most or all of the money they earn goes to pay off their loan. The value of their work invariably becomes greater than the original sum of money borrowed. Bonded labor has existed for hundreds of years. Debt bondage was used to trap indentured laborers into working on plantations in Africa , the Caribbean , and South-East Asia , following the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade . Bonded labor is most widespread in South Asian countries such as India and Pakistan . Often entire families have to work to pay off the debt taken by one of its members. Sometimes, the debt can be passed down the generations and children can be held in debt bondage because of a loan their parents had taken decades ago. Bonded Labor in Different Ways. Credits: hourstv.com Bonded labor has been outlawed in Pakistan and most ot...