Patna: The Bihar government has undertaken a slew of measures, including constituting a flying squad to eradicate child labour from the state. The flying squad would carry out raids to free working children and file a case against their employer, Principal Secretary (Labour) Vyasji told a seminar 'Child Rights and Law'. The state government has also proposed to strengthen the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and ration cards will be...
01:50 AM, May 07, 2012
Panaji: Goa government has launched an inquiry after a state-run hospital was found employing children who were allegedly trafficked by criminals into the state. During a raid this week, the Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR) had come across a 16-year-old boy from Bihar, who was purportedly sold in the state for Rs 15,000. The boy was working in a canteen of Goa medical college and hospital...
09:57 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Dhuliyan: Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms. With the unthinking swiftness of a movement performed countless times before, she slashes a naked razor blade into a square-cut leaf to trim off the veins. She drops in flakes of tobacco, packs them...
10:23 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre, States and Union Territories on a petition alleging that over one lakh children have mysteriously disappeared from their homes across the country between 2008 and 2011. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar also sought reply from the Attorney General G E Vahanvati on the PIL filed by an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan. Appearing for...
12:05 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Children turn Citizen Journalist taking up serious issues like their right to education and basic human rights. ...
10:56 PM, Nov 12, 2011
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10:51 PM, Nov 12, 2011
New Deli: Its been 20 years since India signed the Child Rights Convention that bans child labour and still 13 million Indian children below the age of 14 are engaged in child labour. On the 20th anniversary of India signing the convention, some children have become citizen journalist to tell us their stories. Citizen Journalist Useeran Khatun from New Delhi says, "I'm Useeran Khatun. I'm 12-years-old and I stay at...
09:28 PM, Jun 12, 2011
After charming audiences, the little star of 'Stanley ka Dabba' is raising awareness about child labour. ...
09:02 AM, May 30, 2011
Mumbai: Seasoned actress Sarika, who started her career as a child artist in the late 1960s, says in over four decades there has been no marked improvement in the condition of young ones on movie sets and it can still be called "child labour". "Basic problems are still the same. It is said they have teachers coming on sets and proper time is given for homework, but nothing of that...
02:49 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Gurgaon: In another shocking case of abuse of a domestic help a nine year old boy was caught on camera being thrashed by his businessman employer. The man is under arrest. The boy was rescued from the posh DLF area of Gurgaon by NGO workers on Wednesday morning. The child alleges he was beaten by the family who even threatened to set their dog on him if he didn’t work....
08:15 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has courted another controversy by remarking on child labour. "We can't ask them to stop work because that will affect their families' source of income." The West Bengal Chief Minister is courting controversy with a statement saying it is not practical to ask children to stop working - this four years after child labour was officially banned across India. The best that can...
07:19 AM, Jan 02, 2011
Some of them got the chance to live their dream - a day in school. ...
02:10 PM, Jan 01, 2011
Gujarat: CNN-IBN brings a special report from Gujarat: The moving story of two teenagers who work with toxic metal scrap at the Alang Ship-breaking Yard. 13-year old Nasir Baloch of Bhavnagar does not go to school. Instead he works to sort and transport toxic scrap metal from ships at the controversial Alang Ship-breaking Yard. His friend Mohsin works there too. Nasir Baloch, who is a child labourer says,"I do this...
11:55 AM, Dec 12, 2010
About 45 children were rescued while they were being taken to work as labourers in cotton fields in Gujarat. ...
08:17 PM, Jul 17, 2010
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12:28 AM, Dec 13, 2009
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