Around the world, some 160 million children work to earn a living, instead of going to…
Tag: Child Labor
Child labour figure rises to 160 million, as COVID-19 puts many more at risk
For the first time in two decades, the number of children being put to work has risen…
A third of world’s children poisoned by lead: UNICEF analysis
Lead poisoning is affecting children on a “massive and previously unknown scale”, according to a ground-breaking…
Over 50% of child labourers in cottonseed farms in India are Dalits or Adivasis
A report published by the human rights NGO Arisa has found that children under 14 years…
MNCs taking over vegetable seed production. So what if child labor shows declining trend?
To save on wages, seed production companies were also moving to remote tribal pockets of Gujarat…