The number of child labourers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said India's labour minister, urging lawmakers to approve planned changes ...

The number of recognized child laborers in India has fallen sharply, according to census data, to 4.3 million in 2011 from 12.6 million in 2001, although children working in family businesses are ...

A boy cleans a table while working at an eatery in Hyderabad, India, June 11, 2016. A UNICEF report based on census data says the proportion of child workers in the 5-to-9-year age group jumped to ...

India’s new child-labor bill is a cause for celebration for the bosses, not children and human-rights advocates. Ragpicker children rest at a yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India. (AP Photo ...

India has one of the highest concentrations of child labor on the planet. Where Anurada Bhosale lives in Maharashtra state, children are primarily employed in brickmaking or in the sugar cane fields.

Mr. Satyarthi, who gave up his career as an electrical engineer 31 years ago to start Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement in 1983, has in the past slammed India’s child labor ...

India’s trade minister insisted Tuesday that activists were hyping accusations of child labor in the country, taking a defensive stand following a report that Gap Inc. had sold clothes made by ...

It has been one year since laws went into effect in India banning children from working in homes, hotels and restaurants. But as VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, there ...

From news services NEW DELHI — India’s trade minister insisted today that activists were hyping accusations of child labor in the country, taking a defensive stand following a report that Gap ...