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Labour practices under scrutiny / Do We Need to Worry?

Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Editorial / Child domestic worker set on fire

The news of 12-year-old Purnima, being set alight by her employer and then left in a warehouse without any medical treatment...

Children and Poverty

Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.

India will need 100 years to end child labour: Report

With child labour decreasing at a dismal rate of only 2.2 per cent per year; it would take more than a century to end the menace, says a report.

April 4, 2016
April 4, 2016

Do We Need to Worry?

Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

February 22, 2016
February 22, 2016

Child domestic worker set on fire

The news of 12-year-old Purnima, being set alight by her employer and then left in a warehouse without any medical treatment...

November 7, 2015
November 7, 2015

Children and Poverty

Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.

June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015

India will need 100 years to end child labour: Report

With child labour decreasing at a dismal rate of only 2.2 per cent per year; it would take more than a century to end the menace, says a report.

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