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India Has 10 Million Working Children, But Budget Cuts Rehab Spend
There has been a “clear but gradual decline” in the share of education in budget, says a Child Rights and You report.
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Forced To Work For 15 Hours Every Day, Labourers Freed After 7 Years From Rajasthan
Mumbai: Nearly 25 workers, including children, who worked 15 hour days for seven years, were rescued at the weekend at Baran in Rajasthan, in a rare crackdown on farms where forced labour is rampant. Campaigners said the workers were from a tribe in Madhya Pradesh and were given loans ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 20,000 before being taken to Rajasthan...
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Years After Father Sold Her, Arunachal Teen Tracks Him Down, Slaps Him
Biswanath: When she was a little over knee high, Badaik’s father took her on a trip. They walked through lush tea gardens, boarded a bus and reached “somewhere”. As she took in the sights, her father turned back and went home, leaving her at the doorstep of a “nice house”. He had sold her into slavery for Rs 500. Badaik grew up working a...
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Child Workers Down In India But Incidents Of Child Sexual Abuse Up: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
The number of child workers in India has fallen considerably but incidents of sexual violence against children has gone up, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has said.
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Activists On How Companies Can Help Create Child Labour-Free Zones In India
Chennai: Brands sourcing garments, shoes, leather and natural stones from India must help create and sustain child labour-free zones by mapping their supply chains and working with communities to boost school enrolment, activists said on Tuesday. The Stop Child Labour Coalition of charities recently launched a campaign with guidelines for compani...
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Bonded As Domestic Worker, Minor Girl Rescued From Ex-Government Official’s Hyderabad Home
Hyderabad: A 13-year-old girl, confined as a domestic worker at an ex-government official’s home, was rescued from Hyderabad on Monday. While the Telangana Labour Department officials were reportedly busy with May Day celebrations, the local police, child rights activists and Childline staff came together to free the girl from a retired governmen...
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Farmer Drank Pesticide, Son Quits School To Support Mother, Siblings
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...
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Number Of Child Workers In Mumbai Decrease. Here's Why
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: The number of children working in Mumbai’s roadside food stalls has plummeted in recent years, activists and police said, attributing the decrease to a crackdown and heightened vigilance in train stations where children are trafficked into the city. Pratham, a charity focused on education, mapped 200,000 shops across M...
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After Brick Kiln, 200 Child Workers Rescued From Bangle Factories In Hyderabad
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: Nearly 200 child workers, some as young as eight, were rescued from bangle factories in Hyderabad over the last week, as part of a crackdown that will continue until the end of the month, police said on Tuesday. Most children rescued were aged between 8 and 14 and came from Bihar, Bengal and Assam, said officials who are ...
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From Child Workers to Educated Artistes, Chennai Parai Drummers’ Journey
Chennai: After performing in Chennai, folk musician N Deepan stunned the audience by revealing he was a child labourer once. From the age of 10, he said he had been in and out of school, spending most of his time toiling at construction sites or binding books in stores. And then he discovered the parai, one of the oldest traditional drums used in...
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Child Workers Dying In Jharkhand Mines. Government Cracks The Whip
Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on “mica mafia” by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed the cover-up of child deaths in illegal mining. A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market h...
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Jodhpur: School kids 'hired' as MNREGA workers, says CAG report
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a case of school children being registered as workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Phalodi panchayat samiti in Jodhpur district.Wages for over 350 work days were released towards these children for the year 2008-09, the report said adding that jo...
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India Has 10 Million Working Children, But Budget Cuts Rehab Spend
There has been a “clear but gradual decline” in the share of education in budget, says a Child Rights and You report.
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Forced To Work For 15 Hours Every Day, Labourers Freed After 7 Years From Rajasthan
Mumbai: Nearly 25 workers, including children, who worked 15 hour days for seven years, were rescued at the weekend at Baran in Rajasthan, in a rare crackdown on farms where forced labour is rampant. Campaigners said the workers were from a tribe in Madhya Pradesh and were given loans ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 20,000 before being taken to Rajasthan...
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Years After Father Sold Her, Arunachal Teen Tracks Him Down, Slaps Him
Biswanath: When she was a little over knee high, Badaik’s father took her on a trip. They walked through lush tea gardens, boarded a bus and reached “somewhere”. As she took in the sights, her father turned back and went home, leaving her at the doorstep of a “nice house”. He had sold her into slavery for Rs 500. Badaik grew up working a...
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Child Workers Down In India But Incidents Of Child Sexual Abuse Up: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
The number of child workers in India has fallen considerably but incidents of sexual violence against children has gone up, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has said.
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Activists On How Companies Can Help Create Child Labour-Free Zones In India
Chennai: Brands sourcing garments, shoes, leather and natural stones from India must help create and sustain child labour-free zones by mapping their supply chains and working with communities to boost school enrolment, activists said on Tuesday. The Stop Child Labour Coalition of charities recently launched a campaign with guidelines for compani...
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Bonded As Domestic Worker, Minor Girl Rescued From Ex-Government Official’s Hyderabad Home
Hyderabad: A 13-year-old girl, confined as a domestic worker at an ex-government official’s home, was rescued from Hyderabad on Monday. While the Telangana Labour Department officials were reportedly busy with May Day celebrations, the local police, child rights activists and Childline staff came together to free the girl from a retired governmen...
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Farmer Drank Pesticide, Son Quits School To Support Mother, Siblings
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...
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Number Of Child Workers In Mumbai Decrease. Here's Why
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: The number of children working in Mumbai’s roadside food stalls has plummeted in recent years, activists and police said, attributing the decrease to a crackdown and heightened vigilance in train stations where children are trafficked into the city. Pratham, a charity focused on education, mapped 200,000 shops across M...
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After Brick Kiln, 200 Child Workers Rescued From Bangle Factories In Hyderabad
By Roli Srivastava Mumbai: Nearly 200 child workers, some as young as eight, were rescued from bangle factories in Hyderabad over the last week, as part of a crackdown that will continue until the end of the month, police said on Tuesday. Most children rescued were aged between 8 and 14 and came from Bihar, Bengal and Assam, said officials who are ...
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From Child Workers to Educated Artistes, Chennai Parai Drummers’ Journey
Chennai: After performing in Chennai, folk musician N Deepan stunned the audience by revealing he was a child labourer once. From the age of 10, he said he had been in and out of school, spending most of his time toiling at construction sites or binding books in stores. And then he discovered the parai, one of the oldest traditional drums used in...
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Child Workers Dying In Jharkhand Mines. Government Cracks The Whip
Authorities in Jharkhand will crackdown on “mica mafia” by starting to legalise some mica mines, a senior government official said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation revealed the cover-up of child deaths in illegal mining. A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market h...
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Jodhpur: School kids 'hired' as MNREGA workers, says CAG report
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has unearthed a case of school children being registered as workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in Phalodi panchayat samiti in Jodhpur district.Wages for over 350 work days were released towards these children for the year 2008-09, the report said adding that jo...
