More than a decade after June 12 was declared 'World Day Against Child Labour’, as many as 65 per cent children in India suffer from poor health, while 40 per cent are child labourers.

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 ...

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.

Mint looks at 10 hard-hitting statistics on the issue of child labour in India. 1) One in every 11 children in India is working. 2) Child labour has been decreasing at an abysmal rate of 2.2% per ...

India’s unemployment struggles are well-documented but concerns on job numbers are merely one aspect of India’s labour challenge. Another, perhaps even more worrying, challenge is child labour.

But that does not mean that making child labour illegal is the best manner of making this happen. Thus India is here making a mistake in the manner in which they are liberalising the rules around ...

As PMI is progressing toward its target of zero child labor in its tobacco supply chain by 2025, here’s how it has been acting through targeted social interventions in Vinukonda, at the heart of India ...

India is estimated to have more child labourers than anywhere else in the world. But while abducting children is illegal, the law is vague on when they can legally work. Child labour law does not ...

The proposed amendment to India’s existing child labor laws would impose a three-year jail term and a fine of $900 for anyone who employs children younger than 14 in any work at all or uses ...

Child labour in the incense manufacturing industry, a longstanding concern for India, is declining significantly and the sector is moving towards complete freedom from child labour in Karnataka ...