NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's middle class must refuse to be waited on by child servants and find a sense of "moral indignation" over child labor, the head of the government's new child rights ...

As I've mentioned about this before the cause is the following ... manner in which Bolivia made child labour legal again on exactly this basis. Back to today's India: Kanimozhi of the DMK made ...

The most significant recent legislative development in India's fight against child labor was the Child Labour (Prohibition ...

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.

There are different factors interlinked that are the causes of this phenomenon. Child labour prevents childrens access to education ... are employed as main or marginal workers (Census of India 2011).

In 2016, the Indian government set a target of rescuing 18 million workers from bondage by 2030, increased the amount of cash aid for survivors more than tenfold, and laid out specific provisions ...

Child labour, caste-based discrimination and poverty are closely interlinked in India, according to a UN ... including its causes and consequences, said that deep-rooted intersecting forms of ...

The government approved a set of amendments to India’s child labor law last week to allow children under 14 years of age to work in non-hazardous family enterprises, some entertainment ...