An Indian boy sells masks for children at a street in Hyderabad, India, June 11, 2016. Child labor remains widespread in India, despite the country’s rapid economic growth over the past decade.

India’s new child-labor bill is a cause for celebration for the bosses, not children and human-rights advocates.

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Kailash Satyarthi who has worked to end child labor and slavery, prompts a look at what Indian law says about children and work. Mr. Satyarthi, who gave up his ...

Economic development was supposed to pull India's children out of the labor force and into school, but it's not working as well as anyone hoped.

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 ...

In India, I have squatted with kids on towering heaps of smelly trash, helping as they picked through rubbish for the tiny items they think they can sell or use. In Congo, I have knelt at the 2 ...

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

We provide robust health and nutrition benefits to children from the most marginalized and disadvantaged communities. We help India’s children start and stay in school. When children are forced into ...

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 ...