Child Labour

Delhi High Court was informed on Monday that more than 200 children working as child labourers here have been rescued since January and further raids are underway. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad granted four weeks to the Delhi government counsel to file a further status report in the matter and listed it for hearing on May 4. The high court was hearing a plea by NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which filed a petition in the aftermath of a fire that killed over 40 people, including several minors, at a factory in the Anaj Mandi area here in December 2019. The NGO had sought a direction to the authorities to inquire into the angle of trafficking and child labour. Advocate Prabhsahay Kaur, representing the NGO, said during the hearing that there had been "unprecedented success" in rescuing child labourers from various units here since January 11 when the last order was passed for constitution of committees in each district. She said the ...

The Biden administration said Monday that it is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of the illegal exploitation of migrant children for labour in the U.S. Hundreds of companies that employed nearly 4,000 children last year were found in violation of federal labor laws, a dramatic increase in the last five years. The growing problem has put Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in the hot seat, with concerns mounting that migrant children have been discharged from shelters and out of federal custody too quickly, pushing them into vulnerable situations where they're more likely to become victims of child labor. In a new video that's been circulating, first reported by The New York Times, the secretary urged his staff to discharge children from the federal government's broken system of shelters faster. If Henry Ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never become famous and rich, Becerra told staff during a meeting last summer in a recording. T

Smart Alabama LLC, a wholly owned unit of the Korean automaker, employed immigrant workers as young as 12, Reuters reported Friday, citing family members of three underage workers

The Nobel laureate said that $52 bn can provide social protection for every child and every pregnant woman in low income countries

This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a reality?

While they may be less susceptible to the virus itself, children in South Asia are profoundly affected by the fallout, including the economic and social consequences of measures such as lockdowns

The number of children in child labour has risen to 16 crore worldwide -- first increase in two decades -- with millions more at risk due to COVID-19

In a statement issued on Friday, the ILO said that the Covid-19 crisis has brought additional poverty to these already vulnerable populations

The findings cast a fresh shadow on operations and compliance practices at the Indian joint venture of Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S

The Yogi Adityanath government in UP has started the process of identifying children engaged in child labour and begging. The exercise has been initiated under the 'Mission Shakti' campaign

The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of a generation of the world's children, depriving them of schooling and sending them to work

The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has started research work in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district on human trafficking, child labour and child marriage, officials said.

The Delhi Police and the DCPCR have seen an increase in cases of child labour during the Covid-19 pandemic

Children may be seen as a stop-gap measure to fill jobs left vacant by migrant labourers who fled cities for their rural homes during the lockdown

The International Labour Organisation welcomed a global agreement to combat the worst forms of child labour as all of its member states have ratified a convention in a process that lasted 21 years.

The report titled 'COVID-19 and Child labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act' says child labour decreased by 94 million since 2000, but that gain is now at risk

The theme of World Day against Child Labour 2020 is 'Covid-19: Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever!'

CRY organised an e-consultation to underscore how the Covid-19 pandemic will affect the situation of child and adolescent labour in India

From informal Indian economy in the time of pandemic, to making cities liveable for migrants, and why Mumbai still struggles to cope with coronavirus - read these and more in today's India dispatch