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.

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.

Child labour, caste-based discrimination and poverty are closely interlinked in India, according to a UN report which highlighted contemporary forms of slavery, including severe discrimination ...

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 National Commission for Protection of Child Rights ... to eradicate child labour in the country from January 10 to March 31. The NCPCR said that the pan-India rescue and rehabilitation ...

Child labour, caste discrimination and poverty are closely linked in India, a senior United Nations official said in a report released on Tuesday. Tomoya Obokata, the United Nations’ Special ...

According to the Crime in India report of National Crime Records Bureau, from 2018 to 2022, only six cases were registered under the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation ...

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary standing committee on labour, textiles and skill development in its 52nd report on ‘National Policy on Child Labourers’ has said that it was “practically not ...

File Photo Garages, automobile workshops and service stations engage children in violation of the law, a report by India’s apex child rights organisation says. “Child labour in automobile industry”, ...