In 2016, the Indian government set a target of rescuing 18 million workers from bondage by 2030, increased the amount of cash aid for survivors more than tenfold, and laid out specific provisions ...

at that rate it will take almost 200 years for India to eradicate child labor. It calls for better implementation of education policies, including better schooling for migrant children ...

But that does not mean that making child labour illegal is the best manner of making this happen. Thus India is here making a mistake in the manner in which they are liberalising the rules around ...

The number of child labourers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said India's labour minister, urging lawmakers to approve planned changes ...

India’s new child-labor bill is a cause for celebration for the bosses, not children and human-rights advocates. Ragpicker children rest at a yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India.

Child labour, caste-based discrimination and poverty are closely interlinked in India, according to a UN report which highlighted contemporary forms of slavery, including severe discrimination ...

Mr. Satyarthi, who gave up his career as an electrical engineer 31 years ago to start Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement in 1983, has in the past slammed India’s child labor ...