Child Labour

People

Seven workers and eight children rescued from brick factory

District officials ensure that they board a train to their native village

Publication Date:

04/04/2009

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Child Labour, Orissa (Odisha)

People

Migration and human development in India

The paper discusses how gaps in both the data on migration and the understanding of the role of migration in livelihood strategies and economic growth in India, have led to inaccurate policy prescriptions and a lack of political commitment to improving the living and working conditions of migrants.

Publication Date:

01/04/2009

Author(s): Priya Deshingkar, Shaheen Akter

Source: UNDP India

Tags:

Migration, Scheduled Castes, Tribals, Child Labour, Economic Development, Poverty, Industry, India

People

State reduces child labour cut-off age

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has reduced the cut-off age for child labour in hazardous industries from 18 to 14.

A government resolution issued by the state labour department on March 2 stated that anyone employing children below 14 in hazardous industries will be prosecuted and fined Rs20,000 for each child employed.

The state's "regressive" step has shocked child labour activists.

Publication Date:

21/03/2009

Source: Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)

Tags:

Health Effects, People, Children, Child Labour, Hazardous Products, High Court, NGO, Maharashtra

People

Child labour in industrial outworker households in India

Child labour is widespread in home-based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. However, very little is known of child labour in industrial outwork.

Publication Date:

21/03/2009

Author(s): Santosh Mehrotra, Mario Biggeri, Ratna M Sudarshan

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

44

Issue:

12

pp:

47

Tags:

People, Child Labour, Industry, Education, India, Statistics

Health

Good health on cards for child workers

- City NGO to provide free medical treatment through hospital tie-up
ANTARA BOSE

Some respite for child workers
Jamshedpur, March 9: A city NGO has now decided to launch a card to good health by providing identity tags to children living in the margins and providing them with free access to medical aid.

Publication Date:

10/03/2009

Source: Telegraph (Ranchi)

Tags:

People, Child Labour, Child Health, NGO, Jharkhand

Mining

Artisanal mining in central Mozambique: Policy and environmental issues of concern

This paper analyses current policy and legislation in relation to the praxis of artisanal gold mining in Mozambique. Approximately 20,000 people are involved in artisanal mining in central Mozambique, producing annually 480–600 kg of gold, 85–90% of which remains in the informal economy. The current legislation, however, is inadequate: artisanal mining is supposed to take place in predetermined “designated areas”, none of which are gold-rich, and, artisanal miners are supposed to get an individual mining pass from provincial authorities, which rarely occurs.

Publication Date:

01/03/2009

Author(s): S. Dondeyne, E. Ndunguru, P. Rafael & et al

Source: Resources Policy

Vol:

34

Issue:

1-2

pp:

45–50

Tags:

Mining, Mozambique, Gold, Occupational Safety, Child Labour, Zimbabwe, Africa, Water Pollution, Mercury

People

Burdened childhood

Child labour needs to be redefined. Some of it is need-based, but most of it is greed-based

Publication Date:

17/01/2009

Author(s): Soni Sinha

Source: Sahara Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Nutrition, Development, Children, Child Labour, Right To Information (RTI), Delhi

Governance And Institutions

Employ panchayats to check school dropouts

With varying statistics on the number of kids in child labour (between six to 100 million), the ministry of panchayati raj believes the government needs to follow the Kerala model and use panchayats to track down the status of every child drop-out.

Publication Date:

12/01/2009

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

Tags:

Children, Child Labour, Education, Panchayats, Kerala

People

Scrap Crash

When the economic downturn nosedived in the second half of 2008, the talk was primarily about macro-economic trends, causes and impacts in the formal economy. In India, where over 90% of the livelihoods

Publication Date:

01/01/2009

Source: Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Tags:

Rag Pickers, People, Children, Child Labour, Delhi, Waste Recycling

Air Pollution