E very year, on June 12, World Day Against Child Labour is an occasion to promote awareness of child labour exploitation ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on World Day against Child Labour called it as a "curse" and urged citizens to ...

World Day Against Child Labour is observed every year on June 12. It reminds us how important it is to create a world where ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rescued victims of child labour in India rarely receive state compensation, new data shows, as campaigners warned a government drive to boost support for ...

Despite India's legal framework prohibiting child labour, enforcement remains a challenge. The Child Labour Act, 1986, and its 2016 amendment prohibit employment of children under 14 in all ...

"The PENCIL portal brings together stakeholders at all levels so that anyone anywhere can register a case of child labour and that an investigation can happen quickly," India's home minister ...

New Delhi — When India's government imposed a strict lockdown in March to try to curb coronavirus infections, Sagheer Shah, a tailor in the small town of Faizabad, had to close his shop.

MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A government survey will reveal for the first time the extent of child labour in deadly mica mines in eastern India, and campaigners plan to use the ...

New Delhi: 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 ...

Debt bondage is illegal. Child labor is, too. India has a minimum wage and labor laws. Almost everyone we interviewed described links between the state’s political leadership and the sugar ...

In most other countries of the world — and in India particularly — childhood is a time of deprivation, of burdensome work, sexual trauma and worse. So June 12, the date designated by the UN to fight ...

This will adversely impact the federal National Child Labor Project that aims to offer free education, meals and health care to these children, according to church leaders and rights activists. "Is ...