Panshant (child victim of bonded labor)

Panshant is an impoverished child invoked in national media as a concrete victim of bonded labor: his mother borrowed a small loan and he was forced to work to repay it. He does not appear onstage; his experience functions as emblematic evidence in debates over corporate and transnational child labor, shaping political communications and the administration’s media calculus. Existing references treat him as a named example whose suffering supplies moral weight to advocacy and forces public officials to reckon with human consequences beyond abstract policy arguments.