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Case against TDP leaders for employing minor

A case of child abuse under the Juvenile Justice Act and Child Labour Act has been registered agains...

Children `working` in MGNREGS, probe ordered

A probe has been ordered into the allegation that child labourers were being engaged in executing wo...

Govt mulls amendment in child labour act

The government is considering an amendment in the Child Labour Act to ban children up to the age of ...

19 child labourers rescued from Bawana area

Nineteen child labourers, including six girls, from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have been r...

20 child labourers rescued in N-W Delhi

Twenty child labourers, mostly from villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were rescued from garment ...

Court lets off lawyer accused in child labour case

A woman lawyer booked under the Child Labour Act for allegedly employing a minor girl as a domesti...

‘Use of child labour in households growing’

Pointing to a rise in child labour in domestic units, NCPCR is seeking to bring households under the...

‘Survey trial court premises for child labours’

The city government was asked by the Delhi HC to inspect various trial court premises to ascertain ...

Rescued child labourers steal show at Delhi marath

Delhi Half Marathon were a group of rescued child labourers who braved the nip in air to spread thei...

Special cell for missing kids, child labourers

The main objective of the cell is to rescue children, who are likely to take to crime or begging, sa...

‘Child labour ban seems to remain on paper’

A notification on October 10, 2006, the CLPRA specifically prohibited employing children below 14 ye...

Kids in India engaged in worst child labour: US

India along with Bangladesh and the Philippines lead the world in the number of products made by ch...

Nine child labourers rescued in Rajasthan

A Central team has stumbled upon instances of child rights violations in a stone crushing unit in ...

NHRC notice to Bihar govt for child labour

NHRC issued a notice to Bihar govt for allegedly making children serve politicians at a function at...

NHRC cell to monitor bonded & child labour cases

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has set up a dedicated cell to monitor the progress in...

HC directive to Pudu Govt on child labour rules

The Madras High Court directed the government of Pudhucherry to notify the rule pertaining to chil...

15 child labourers rescued

Fifteen children from Bihar who fled from a bakery unit after allegedly working as bonded labourer...

Committed towards eradicating child labour: Chavan

Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan said that the state govt was committed towards eradicating child la...

Child labour generates Rs 1.2 lakh cr black money

According to a report, the figure was arrived at by calculating the number of child labourers, the i...

Action plan to eliminate child labour soon: Delhi Govt

Delhi Government will soon come out with an action plan to eliminate child labour from the city an...

Delhi: 34 child labourers rescued

Thirty-four child labourers, most of them trafficked from states like Bihar, have been rescued fro...

Delhi: Man held for beating child worker to death

A man, who had beaten to death a 10-year-old child working in his `bindi`-making unit here, was ar...

36 child labourers rescued in Delhi: NGO

Thirty-six child labourers were rescued and 11 factories sealed in separate operations carried out...

Six child labourers rescued from Lucknow University canteen

Six child labourers working in canteens at Lucknow University have been rescued by a team of the U...

35 child labourers rescued in Delhi

35 children, who were trafficked from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and were working in leather goods fac...

Child labour rescue team attacked, four hospitalised

Several activists of a city-based child rights NGO were on Thursday allegedly attacked and severel...

25 child labourers rescued in Delhi

Twenty-five child labourers, most of them trafficked from Bihar, were rescued by authorities from ...

Government agency under scanner for child labour

Several children, aged below 14 years, were seen sprucing up the Kanshi Ram Awas Yojna, a housing s...

NCPCR slams Delhi Govt on rescue, rehab of child labourers

Delhi government has failed to take proper action for rescue and rehabilitation of child labourers...

26 child labourers rescued in Lucknow

As many as 26 child labourers were rescued from various restaurants in the city during a joint raid ...

`Strit vigil against child labour and begging`

Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told assembly that police have been asked to put up str...

Over 1000 of child labour rescued: Delhi Police to HC

The police told the Delhi High Court that more than one thousand children, working in various plac...

SC unhappy with state govts response on bonded & child labour

Supreme Court on Friday expressed displeasure that despite allocation of funds by the Centre, variou...

Committee formed to stop child labour

With a view to stop child labour in Chhattisgarh, the state government has formed an Authority Rev...

End child labour, Bangladesh court tells government

B`desh court directs govt to end child labour within a year in industries.

India set to ratify international convention on child labour

Accelerating its fight against child labour, India is now preparing a roadmap for ratification of an...

Petition given to PM seeking ban on child labour

Stressing on the need for urgent amendments to the child labour law, a group of eminent people hav...

Child labourers increasing in Nagaland

There are over 9,000 child labourers engaged in various works across the 11 district headquarters ...

US commits $60 mn towards child labour elimination

US President Barack Obama said his administration has committed USD 60 million this year to towards ...

64 child labourers rescued in Haridwar

Police have rescued 64 children, all aged below eight, from a hostel at Laltaro area here amid all...

Drive against child workers slackening: UN labour agency

Some 215 million children and a growing number of boys are locked in the practice of child labour.

54 child labourers rescued in Delhi; 145 in over a week

Fifty-four child labourers were rescued by authorities from button-making units in south Delhi tod...

Central advisory board for realignment of Child Labour Project

Against the backdrop of the enactment of the Right to Education Act, a Central advisory board has fa...

Pakistan`s poverty pushes its children to work

Abbas Sajeet is 11 years old, but he doesn`t go to school. Instead, he earns 2,500 rupees (USD 30) a...

Youth on country-wide tour to speak against child labour

A 22 year-old village youth from Uttar Pradesh is on a solo country-wide motorcycle tour to create...

`India-specific conditions stalling ILO convention`

The government on Monday said the ILO conventions, seeking elimination of the worst form of child ...

SC snubs govt, media on child labour and prostitution

Even as the Centre suggested banning use of children in TV reality shows, the SC on Monday critici...

Govt working on consensus to ratify convention on child labour

Government today said it was working towards building a consensus for implementation of an ILO con...

15 child labourers rescued in Chhattisgarh

Fifteen child labourers were rescued from Chhattisgarh`s Sarguja district by a special task force, ...

28 bonded child labourers rescued in Delhi

Twenty-eight bonded child labourers were on Monday rescued by authorities from different `zari` un...

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