Tag: child labour
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Eradicate Child Labour and Aspire for a Better Future
By Souromita Chatterjee, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. “Children should be making sand castles, not bricks.” Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on a part-time or full-time basis. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines the term child labour as, “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical…
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The Immorality of Child Labour
By Sonali Bhatnagar, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Everything has been said already; but as No one listens, we must always begin again. …
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Juvenile Delinquency: The Indian Scenario
By Kshitiz Sharma, Delhi Institute of Rural Development, GGSIPU, Delhi. More than a century ago, Abraham Lincoln said “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to those things you think are important. You may…
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Right to Education in the context of Child Labor: An Analysis
By Rohin Bhansali, Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat. Child labor is widespread and bad for development, both that of the individual child and of the society and economy in which she or he lives. If allowed to persist to the current extent, child labor will prevent the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty…
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Child Labour in India
“When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry “Weep! Weep! Weep! Weep!”, so your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.”[1] …