Private charities that are buying freedom for enslaved children and young women in Sudan have reacted angrily to recent criticism of them from Unicef, the UN Children's Fund. "It is difficult to

In an attempt to get millions of Pakistani children out of the work-force and into school, the International Labour Organisation announced a $2.9 million programme to fight child

The opposition demanded an explaination from the government as to why a US team of custom officials was permitted into the country to assess forced child labour in the Indian textile industry. The

They came in thousands, in boats, across rivers so huge that you often lose sight of the banks. On 21 February, they had set out at the crack of dawn, when a pale mist still hung over the waters, and

Though child labour is against the law and spirit of the Constitution and exploiting children for personal needs inhumane, it is increasing at an alarming pace in the North Eastern State of Tripura.

Mixed-race aborigines taken as children from their parents under an obsolete policy of enforced sepration suffered cruelty unsurpassed in recent Australian history. Senior counsel Jack Rush told the

A comprehensive, multiyear study concludes that mothers who work outside the home are not harming their children. The research, published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology magazine,

The US has alleged that India has as many as five million bonded labourers, an unknown number being children, and accused the country of being lax in implementing laws banning such

The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is preparing to provide "justice with compassion" to an estimated 30 million children in the country who belong to families living below the

A $1 billion class-action suit alleges that companies in Saipan, mistreat their employees. The suit says that in dozens of factories in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S.