These are the bonded child laborers of India. This report is about them. “Bonded child labor” refers to the phenomenon of children working in conditions of servitude in order to pay off a debt.

In India, Human Rights Watch looked at bonded child laborers working in agriculture as part of a larger study of bonded child labor. There are as many as 15 million bonded child laborers in India ...

Authorities on Tuesday launched a comprehensive drive and rescued seven children who were forced into child labour in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said. The drive was conducted ...

Already, 40% of Indian women in the sex trade are children, and added to that 66% of the revenue generated from trafficking comes from sexual exploitation. Child porn is an $8 billion industry for ...

In its 2024 "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor", the US Department of Labor identified child labour in cotton produced in India. According to Transparentem, the investigated ...

Bartlett, Christopher A., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 906-415, May 2006. (Revised ...

The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of Delhi Police has earned ISO certification, marking its committed efforts since 2014 in combating human trafficking, child labor, and sexual exploitation. The ...

The NCPCR said the pan-India Rescue and Rehabilitation Campaign ... with the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, and The Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, of 1986.

The drive was conducted jointly by the social welfare and labour departments following directions issued by the National ...

Bartlett, Christopher A. "IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 907-407, November 2006. (Revised December 2012.) ...