Children Issues
In Focus: Child Labour
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he additional curbs on child labour in specified hazardous occupations come into effect today. This is a welcome step but far from adequate. Ultimately, all forms of labour are hazardous to the well being of children says Madhura Swaminathan. More...
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India’s new ban on child labour welcome, but it forgets work in agriculture & at home
Primary Education as a Fundamental Right
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* Primary Education as a Fundamental Right, S. Chandrasekhar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay It is found that the direct costs of education adversely affect the probability of children going to school, more so for children from |
Views/Opinion
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* Poverty is no excuse for child labour  The latest interview with Shantha Sinha, MV Foundation by the ICFTU Brussels 31 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The MV Foundation, an Indian NGO, has taken almost 400,000 children out of work and placed them in schools. Community mobilisation, dialogue with teachers and lobbying are the keys to it’s success. Shantha Sinha, the founder of the NGO, tells us about the MV Foundation and its desire to work more closely with trade unions. More
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Journal of Economic Political Weekly has brought out special issue on child nutrition with perspectives on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).
The ICDS is one of the most important public programmes inIndia
The ICDS is one of the most important public programmes in
Knowledge for Advocacy
| * ILO Global Report on Child Labour The ILO is aiming too low.....For most children the end of child labour is not within reach The campaign ‘STOP Child labour – School is the best place to work’’ fears that the majority of working children will not benefit from the global action plan that the ILO has published on the 4th of May, in its Global Report called ‘The end of child labour – Within reach’. |
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The ILO wants to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the coming 10 years, but has little to offer to the majority of children doing other work. These include 92 million children involved in so-called economic activities and a probably much larger number of children, not counted by the ILO, who are working in their own home or on their parents’ fields. More