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Child labour records 1st rise in 20 years, millions more at risk: Report

The number of children in child labour has risen to 16 crore worldwide -- first increase in two decades -- with millions more at risk due to COVID-19

Child labour fell 38% in last decade, but Covid worsened situation: ILO

In a statement issued on Friday, the ILO said that the Covid-19 crisis has brought additional poverty to these already vulnerable populations

Carlsberg India probes find 'potential improper payments', child labour

The findings cast a fresh shadow on operations and compliance practices at the Indian joint venture of Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S

UP govt starts identifying child labourers, beggars for rehabilitation

The Yogi Adityanath government in UP has started the process of identifying children engaged in child labour and begging. The exercise has been initiated under the 'Mission Shakti' campaign

Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardising gains: Report

The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of a generation of the world's children, depriving them of schooling and sending them to work

ICSSR begins research project on human trafficking, child labour in UP

The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has started research work in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district on human trafficking, child labour and child marriage, officials said.

Delhi Police, DCPCR say child labour cases increased during pandemic

The Delhi Police and the DCPCR have seen an increase in cases of child labour during the Covid-19 pandemic

Lost generation: Covid-19 pushes millions of kids out of school, into work

Children may be seen as a stop-gap measure to fill jobs left vacant by migrant labourers who fled cities for their rural homes during the lockdown

ILO hails 'historic first' global convention to combat child labour

The International Labour Organisation welcomed a global agreement to combat the worst forms of child labour as all of its member states have ratified a convention in a process that lasted 21 years.

Covid-19 may push millions of children into child labour: UN report

The report titled 'COVID-19 and Child labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act' says child labour decreased by 94 million since 2000, but that gain is now at risk

World Day against Child Labour 2020: Theme, importance in times of Covid-19

The theme of World Day against Child Labour 2020 is 'Covid-19: Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever!'

High chances of child labour increasing in aftermath of Covid-19: CRY

CRY organised an e-consultation to underscore how the Covid-19 pandemic will affect the situation of child and adolescent labour in India

India coronavirus dispatch: Why heart surgeries have got scaled back

From informal Indian economy in the time of pandemic, to making cities liveable for migrants, and why Mumbai still struggles to cope with coronavirus - read these and more in today's India dispatch

Apple, Microsoft, among five sued over child labour deaths in cobalt mines

Impoverished but mineral-rich DR Congo is the world's largest producer of the rare metal, which is crucial for making batteries used in mobile phones and electric vehicles

Children's Day 2019: These are the rights that children have in India

This Children's day, teach your child the rights laid down by the Constitution of India specifically for them

Adityanath gives clarion call to end the scourge of child labour in UP

Asks local bodies to conduct a census of child labourers

Why many children in Afghanistan can no longer afford to attend school

A UN report released last year said that more than 2 million Afghan children aged 6-14 were engaged in some form of child labor

Over 40 mn caught in modern slavery, 152 mn in child labour: UN report

The report said that 152 million children, including 64 million girls and 88 million boys, are subject to child labour

Portrait of a youth champion

In UP's patriarchal villages it's heresy if a girl walks into police station, says the author

India to ratify key global conventions to tackle child labour issue

India's ratification will help to bring world's children under the ambit of the ILO legislation