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.

India has had a huge child labor problem since long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and drove even more kids into work. According to the most recent available government data — which is a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...