Qadri Inzamam

Qadri Inzamam is a freelance journalist from India and currently based in Denmark. He has previously worked with Outlook Magazine – India’s preeminent weekly news magazine – as Assistant Editor. His stories have featured in Foreign Policy, The Intercept, Slate, New Lines, BBC, Al Jazeera and Undark, and several other international publications. He writes on human rights, politics, gender and technology.

To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder

Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher.

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Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Industry: They Run It

Politicians run most of the mills in the state of Maharashtra. They deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage — what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women

Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage -- what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women.

by Qadri Inzamam

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted - a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with…

by Qadri Inzamam

Qadri Inzamam

To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder

Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Industry: They Run It

Reporter’s Notebook: Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage — what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

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