WASHINGTON — India, which is continuing its rise to the top of global cotton production, has made some strides in reducing the use of child labor in its cottonseed industry, but the problem remains ...

The Government of India, in cooperation with the US Department of Labor and the International Labour Organization (ILO) today launched a US$ 40 million programme aimed at eliminating child labour that ...

A recent nationwide campaign against child labour led to rescue of over 3,800 children. However, what happens to the ...

To say that child labor is pervasive in India’s agricultural industries is to undersell the issue. In January, the New York investigative nonprofit Transparentem connected some of the world’s largest ...

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labour when she was 11, Shalini ...

This study, undertaken by the ILO Child Labour Platform, examines the intersection between child labour and labour migration within the state of Telangana, India. It investigates the root causes ...

New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) The government has approved ratification of two fundamental conventions of International Labour Organization (ILO) to address concerns related to child labour. “The Cabinet ...

How To Curb It? Sharad Pawar: Victim of BJP's ...

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian activists have criticized a bill that bans the employment of children under 14 in more than a dozen occupations, but allows them to work for their ...

Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination ...

Amman, Mar 30 (PTI) There is an immediate need to scale up efforts to eliminate modern slavery, trafficking and child labour, Nobel laureates and world leaders proclaimed at a summit titled Laureates ...