Child labor remains widespread in India, where an estimated 13 million children work, with laws meant to keep kids in school and out of the workplace routinely flouted. 32 locations cited.

According to a 2025 International Labour Organisation report, 138 million children globally are still engaged in child labour ...

India recently passed a law aimed at fighting child labor by making education compulsory up to age 14. But grinding poverty still leads many kids to work, and certain industries that involve ...

PATNA, India — When the Nobel Committee announced that Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi had won the Peace Prize, a skinny 13-year-old boy was serving cups of milky tea to ...

India faces a critical challenge in protecting its children, with tens of thousands rescued from exploitative labor and ...

Velpur Mandal of Nizamabad district in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh was once notorious for child labour, but, in a dramatic way, became a rare exception of shunning child labour ...

A recent report on child labour rescues has found that Telangana outpaced all other states in pulling children out of unlawful employment in 2024–25. Of the 53,651 children rescued in India during ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers across India are on strike to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s privatization efforts and economic reforms.

We think of child labor as a travesty of human rights violations 'over there.' But U.S. laws are only as good as our enforcement, Ashley Judd writes.

When children are forced into child labor, are abused or trafficked, we work to protect them and keep them free from violence. In disaster-prone India, our trained teams mobilize when children and ...