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Child Labor

Special drive against child labour

Staff Reporter VISAKHAPATNAM: An interface with the members of child clubs, voluntary and community-based organisations in the tribal areas of Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts was conducted to sensitise them on taking...

Indian children work despite ban

Children often work for long hours and get paid little Millions of children under 14 continue to work as domestic servants or at food stalls two years after India banned their employment, say activists. Activists say there has...

Law fails to reclaim lost childhood

New Delhi: Like all other days, eight-year-old Raghu's day began much the same way on Friday. Bending over dirty pots and pans and scrubbing them clean at the dhaba, or roadside eatery, where he works, Raghu had no clue that...

Labor Dept. looking at SC chicken plant

A South Carolina chicken processing plant is under federal investigation for possible child labor violations following the arrests of suspected illegal immigrants during a raid, including six juveniles, the U.S Labor Department...

SPARC meeting

SPARC reviews child labor situation in Chitral. CHITRAL: Society of Protection of Rights of Children reviewed child labor situation in a meeting here at Child Right Committee (CRC) office Chitral. Engineer Temour Shah...

Cotton picking 08

This article over at RFE/RL is another attack on Central Asian governments’ continued use of child labor in the cotton industry. It does a fair job of spreading the fact that Uzbekistan isn’t the only offender, merely the...

Underage workers among those held in S.C. plant raid

Workers as young as 15 were among those who federal authorities detained in a massive raid at a poultry plant Tuesday. Their employment at the House of Raeford Farms plant appears to violate S.C. labor law, which prohibits...

Immigrants' children among Canada's best educated

MARINA JIMÉNEZ From Thursday's Globe and Mail Children of immigrants – even those without university backgrounds – are better educated than their Canadian-born counterparts, according to a groundbreaking new study based on 2001...

Government faces backbench revolt over policy that lets parents smack their children

Rebel cause: A group of Labour backbenchers are going against party policy in their bid to outlaw the smacking of children The Government is facing a backbench rebellion over its policy on allowing parents to smack their...

Work and/or life?

Within the framework of the European Social Forum 2008, Peter Waterman analyzed the iniciatives put forward by trade unions and the labour agenda. In a special document, he develops critical opinions on the international union...

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