India appears to be making a mistake with the introduction of a new law to ban more types of child labor. The problem is not the desire to reduce the amount of child labor that happens (that's ...

Children below the age of 14 are permitted to work in non-hazardous environments and above that age, any kind of work is legal.

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.

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

It has been one year since laws went into effect in India banning children from working in homes, hotels and restaurants. But as VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, there ...

India has one of the highest concentrations of child labor on the planet. Where Anurada Bhosale lives in Maharashtra state, children are primarily employed in brickmaking or in the sugar cane ...

A decade ago India ratified the UN convention on children's rights but refused to sign one key clause that set the standard for child labor--14 and under.

India has declared that it wants to end child labor, but advocacy groups argue that a new government proposal could actually push more youngsters into the workforce, jeopardizing their education ...

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 ...