Sumangali (child labour)

Sumangali is practiced in India principle of child labor. This type of payment is prohibited by law.

Principle

Mainly textile companies close it with the parents a multi-year contract for their young daughters, in which a large part of the remuneration is paid only after its complete fulfillment. So the girl to come to the dowry that has to bring into a marriage. After the local morals an unmarried woman is worthless. Sumangali called in about Happy bride. The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is well known, the principle of Sumangali. Because currently, however, no legal obligation for companies is to disclose their sources of supply, the federal government has no information on whether German or European company can produce textiles that have been produced under the Sumangali principle or disposal under their supply chains to such produced textiles, introduce them, process or sell them.

Criticism

Terre des hommes and other humanitarian organizations refer to this principle as exploitation and slavery. According to the organizations, the girls are kept in barrack -like accommodation that they can not leave. Contacts with the family are permitted rarely and only under supervision. This allows companies to repressive and almost arbitrarily to proceed with the girls. Consequently, it is not uncommon to injuries, mutilations and suicides. Headhunter receive a bounty for each acquired girls. By glossing over the true state of affairs, they find their victims, mostly in poor families. Volker Beck criticizes the fact that textiles which have been produced under the Sumangali system, may be imported to Germany and sold here, including German companies.