Stolen Childhood

Locked between India and China is a small but volatile country called Nepal, which is fast spiraling out of control. The Maoist rebels are dissatisfied that the nation remains a monarch and decreasing resources cripple the Nepalese government. So...

What would you have done, had your child being forced to sell his innocence for 'Rs. 1 kilo of foam'? You can hardly even think of it right? But that is a gruesome fact, which many a child in India is gripped by? The claws of child labour are gnawing.

If one thinks that the Western companies hiring cheap child laborers of Third World are actually exploiting them, then one is altogether wrong at least if one goes by the survey conducted by Pew Center for the People and Press in 44 nations, covering...

Child Labour deprives millions of children around the world from their fundamental rights. According to the UNICEF report, there are around 211 million children around the world in 5-14 age-group, who work as full time labourers. The report also...

Child labour is one of the worst forms of exploitation of a child. Africa has the highest incidence of child labour, while Asia being the most densely populated reegion has the largest number of child labourers. It has 61 percent of the world's child...

Only a few days back, the Indian government declared a ban on any form of child labor up to the age of 14 years, but many leading international child rights guardians are asking the Indian government to reconsider the ban and increase the age limit up..

A recent research conducted by experts at Indian Centre for Development Economics states that India has to buckle up its fight against child labour, if it has to meet its target by the year 2015. Currently the declining ratio is at 0.5 million a...

For the first time in Chennai, a metropolitan city of India, a unique way of combating with child labour will be experimented, when motor sports freaks from all over the globe will come together to join the Auto Rally. The seven-day rally will kick...

Girl carrying stones Some things can never be changed and child labour is one such issue, which never seems to end. Child labour is abundant in most of the third world nations. In India, most of the children below are often employed as domestic...

African children are among those underprivileged ones who are dying every single day due to countless problems surrounding them: right from AIDS, child labour, child abuse to poverty their life is no better than a living nightmare. According to the...