Anti-Child Labour

14/12/2018

Experienced any child labour around you?, free feel to post\send the detail's, will publish the article or blog if it really a child labour concern.

Stop child labour
Together we all can stop this..

11/12/2014

30/09/2013

TANZANIA-

Africa's fourth largest gold producer, has been exposed as employing children as young as eight years old to work in its many gold mines, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

In a report released, the group accosted the country for allowing thousands of children to work in its small-scale gold mines, some of which happened to be unlicensed.

"They dig and drill in deep, unstable pits, work underground for shifts of up to 24 hours, and transport and crush heavy bags of gold ore," the group said in its 96-page report titled 'Toxic Toil: Child Labor and Mercury Exposure in Tanzania's Small-Scale Gold Mines.'

More often, hopes and dreams of a better life are the main reasons why the Tanzanian boys and girls are eventually lured to the gold mines. However, "they find themselves stuck in a dead-end cycle of danger and despair," Janine Morna, HRWR children's rights researcher, said.

It was found that most of the children working in the mines were orphans. Moreover, young girls living around the mining sites face sexual harassment and exploitation, exposing them to potential risks of getting afflicted with sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.

26/09/2013

INDIA-
In 2010, Impulse, a nongovernmental organization based in Shillong, Meghalaya’s capital, reported that it had found 200 children — some as young as 5 — working in 10 local mines. The group estimated that as many as 70,000 children worked in about 5,000 mines.

Its findings led to images in the Indian news media of small children working in horrifying conditions. State officials angrily denied that there was any child labor problem.

Investigations soon followed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, as well as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, one of the nation’s most respected independent research groups. Both confirmed the presence of child laborers.

26/09/2013

KHLIEHRIAT, India
After descending 70 feet on a wobbly bamboo staircase into a dank pit, the teenage miners ducked into a black hole about two feet high and crawled 100 yards through mud before starting their day digging coal. They wore T-shirts, pajama-like pants and short rubber boots — not a hard hat or steel-toed boot in sight. They tied rags on their heads to hold small flashlights and stuffed their ears with cloth. And they spent the whole day staring death in the face.

26/09/2013

"NO CHILD LABOUR FOUND"

According to an RTI filed by S. Thirumal, the enforcement authorities from various wings of the labour department have been conducting periodical inspections under the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986. The labour Department has said that “there is no child labour found in the field of domestic work, restaurants and dhabas.”

From 1999 to 2012, the Department has spent a total of 1.87 crore on the child labour cell, when they have only taken up three important cases.

Labour Commissioner G. Srinivasan confirmed that there was no child labour in the UT.

“Still, we are planning to conduct a comprehensive survey on child labour to identify its prevalence.”

The Department of Economics and Statistics was currently working on the questionnaire and the modalities.

26/09/2013

RESCUED FROM A RESTAURANT:
17 children were rescued from a restaurant on Tuesday afternoon (21/8/2013) who were working in Halli Mane in Malleswaram. The rescue operation was jointly carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the CID Cell and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (a non-governmental organisation) along with the help of the Malleswaram police.
The children mostly hailed from Bihar, Assam and different parts of Karnataka. At least 15 of them are minors. They were made to wash vessels, clean floors, chop vegetables and also provide service to customers sometimes. They worked for about eight to 10 hours a day. Some of them even worked in shifts from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., while others would work in the early hours from around 3 a.m
Police officials said the children had been provided separate accommodation near the restaurant.
However, they said that it was reasonably spacious and was not in a bad condition. When asked about the rescue, an employee of Halli Mane, who brought food to them in the evening, said the boys had sought employment at the restaurant about three months ago, stating that they were poor. He claimed that the boys worked from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and were paid about Rs. 5,500 per month.

26/09/2013

10 year old Shaifur working in a door lock factory in Old Dhaka without any safety or mask

25/09/2013

SURAT
Six child labourers were rescued
September 23,2013 | Gujarat
Police arrested a person on Saturday for keeping 6 child labourers in his zardosi unit. A complaint was lodge against zardosi unit owner Shambhu Bhonuram by labour department officials.
The childrens will be sent to their native places, till then they will b at children’s home in Katagram. Basically those kids were from Bihar in the age group of 12 to 13, and were paid around 1000 per month with food and shelters by the owner of zardosi unit in Limbayat area.
Police are trying to find out some more details.
"We did not lodge a complaint immediately. We wanted to verify the age of the six children, who have been found to be minors," said M S Patel, assistant labour commissioner, Surat.

11/09/2013

MADURAI
Child labour comes to the fore at Sivakasi
May 21, 2013 | V Mayilvaganan , TNN
SIVAKASI: Child labourers seem to be back at cracker units in Sivakasi. In spite of the stringent rules and the strict vigil on the cracker industry, two large-scale units in the cracker hub of the country were found to employ children below the age of 14 years. The state government officials stumbled upon seven child labourers during a raid at the units on Monday and cancelled their licences. "Durga Colour Matches at Gurumurthinayakanpatti was found to have employed two children while...