Wal-Mart has told suppliers to stop buying cotton from Uzbekistan to try to end forced child labour in cotton harvesting. The world's largest retailer said it had formed a coalition representing 90 per cent of US purchases of cotton and cotton-based merchandise.

Over 30,000 children under the age of 14 years are employed in shops, boutiques and majority secretly employed in the domestic sector. Apart from that sexual exploitation of children by local and foreign tourists is also found to be on the rise.

Migrant child labour at Attur pegged at 38,000; officials say agriculture not under Child Labour Act
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The workforce in carpet industry which generated $200 million through exports in 2005 comprise most vulnerable, marginalised and dispersed population which also included children, says a recent study conducted by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on Bonded Child Labour in the carpet industry of Thar. At least 40 per cent of the workforce in carpet weaving are children, the report said.

The number of child labourers is increasing alarmingly in the coastal district of Patuakhali as poverty forces them to work for earning livelihood, according to a study.
At present, over 21,000 children below 12 years of old are engaged in different odd jobs in the district, says the study conducted by Human Development Association, a non-governmental organisation.
Poverty is the key reason for the continued rise in the number child labourers in the district as poor parents send their children to work to earn livelihood, the study says.

AHMEDABAD: The state government has resolved to free the state from child labour by 2010 and has prepared a state action plan towards this goal.

As part of this project, a three-day training programme

The Centre has decided to adopt a somewhat novel approach to check the use of child labour by big companies and business groups in the country.
Instead of cracking the whip on them, it has decided to rope them in to check the menace by drawing up an action plan in collaboration with them.
Having failed in its endeavour to check employment of child labour by the corporate world, the Centre plans to seek the cooperation of business groups, corporates and multi-national companies (MNCs) to check the rampant use of child labour by industrial units and factories.

THE government has directed export promotion councils to conduct social auditing of their members before exporting products to rule out any involvement of child labour. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights' (NCPCR) directive is significant in the light of rejection of several export consignments by buyers due to involvement of child labour in the manufacturing process. Certain carpet industry, leather units and garment companies have been allegedly found using child labour in their facilities.

New Delhi, July 16: Concerned over the growing incidence of child labour in the country, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has directed state governments and various export promotion councils to set up self regulatory mechanism to check child labour from supply to export stage. India has the highest number of child labour, with reports estimating more than 200 million children working in different sectors, including more than 120 million engaged in hazardous work.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has directed state governments and various export promotion councils to set up a self-regulatory mechanism to check child labour from supply to export stage.