B.
Replies received between 1 February and 30 April 2013 relating to communications sent before
1 December 2012
13.
The table below lists, in chronological order, communications dating before 1 December 2012 to which a reply or an
additional reply has been received in the period between 1 February and 30 April 2013. Copies of the full text of the
communications sent and the reply received during the reporting period can be accessed from the electronic version of this report
available on the OHCHR website. Some names of individuals or other information have been rendered anonymous or otherwise
unidentifiable. English translations of some replies received in Arabic, Chinese and Russian will be made available as soon as they
are ready.
14.
The table below also includes additional responses to 15 communications received before 1 February 2013, which were
inadvertently omitted in the previous report A/HRC/22/67 due to technical errors. These cases are IND 15/2010; BHR 2/2011; IND
8/2011; SLV 3/2011; CAN 3/2011; HUN 1/2012; HUN 2/2012; SYR 3/2012; LBN 2/2012; KOR 1/2012; IRN 8/2012; PAK
6/2012; GBR 2/2012; OTH 9/2012 and OTH 10/2012.
Date
Type
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
IND 15/2010
15/10/2010 India
JAL
Migrants; Sale of
children; Slavery;
Trafficking;
Alleged sale of children for forced labour in mines. According to the information 08/08/2012
received, an estimated 70,000 bonded child labourers from Nepal and Bangladesh
work at the so-called "rat mines" of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya State, India. In most
cases, the children are allegedly purchased by middlemen or abducted or sold by
gangs in Nepal and Bangladesh to the mining mafia in Meghalaya. The working
conditions at the mines are allegedly hazardous, unhygienic, cruel and inhuman.
Deaths of children due to the unsafe working conditions are reportedly common,
and often remain unreported. The children reportedly live in huts made with plastic
sheets and there is a lack of safe drinking water and proper sewage system.
Allegedly, girls are also often bought by the mine owners and subject to sexual
exploitation. There is also information suggesting that some children are trafficked
further from the mines to other places for sexual exploitation. Reportedly, there is
a lack of interventions in this matter by the State Government.
BHR 2/2011
17/03/2011 Bahrain
UA
Health;
Alleged takeover of hospital by the army. According to the information received,
the Army of Bahrain commandeered and occupied Salmaniya hospital, the main
hospital in Manama, and blocked access to it. Reportedly, entry and exit from the
building had been prohibited, and the electricity cut off. Additional reports have
been received that security forces had attacked medical workers and occupied
smaller state and private medical centres.
18/04/2011
14/12/2012
A/HRC/23/51
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