Kerala high court has held that a child or juvenile above the age of 14 cannot be prevented from getting employment in any work, which is not hazardous, so as to enable him/her eke out a living.

Just

A proposal to put a complete ban on employment of children up to the age of 14 both in hazardous and non-hazardous work by amending an anti-child labour Act was cleared by the government on Tuesday.

It was World Day Against Child Labour on Tuesday but for lakhs of children across Bengaluru, it made no difference as they rose early to rush to work as usual to feed their families. Over two lakh chi

Thanks to the “night shelter project” started by the Chennai Corporation in 2009 near the Kodungaiyur dump yard, many child ragpickers had been rehabilitated.

In fact, many of them have taken up the

You can find them in posh apartments, slaughterhouses, teashops, dump yards, construction sites and at rail and bus stations and the number of children working in metros and smaller towns is increasin

The Secunderabad Railway Police rescued nine children being used as labour at an iron recycling factory in Mahbubnagar on Thursday. The cops arrested Sanjay Jain Chouradia, owner of Kshree Metallurgi

Over 500 rehabilitated child workers in Tiruvallur would probably return to their workplace from this week as the government has shut down the 16 schools run under the National Child Labour Project (N

Amma nee illai endral aadharavukku yar irrukka? Kastapatta kalathilum galagalanu sirepayea (Mother, if you are not here, who else will take care of me? Even during those difficult times, you were smil

Amid a heated debate over bringing back unaccounted money stashed abroad, a child rights outfit has claimed that child labour generates Rs 1.2 lakh crore of blackmoney every year in India.

According

The Supreme Court today banned the employment of children in circuses and directed the government to rescue children employed in the sector and formulate a rehabilitation programme for them.

A ben