Malawi'’s agricultural sector is critical to its economy, employing around 77% of the population and accounting for 23% of gross domestic product (GDP). The majority of workers in agriculture are smallholder farmers, many of whom cultivate less than one hectare of land. Despite its importance, the sector faces significant challenges, …
The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has decided to present amendments to the existing legislation on child labour. NCPA Chairman Jagath Wellawatte said the new legislation will seek to increase the legal age of child labour recruitment from 14 to 18. Mr. Wellawatte told the Daily Mirror that children employed …
The paper discusses how gaps in both the data on migration and the understanding of the role of migration in livelihood strategies and economic growth in India, have led to inaccurate policy prescriptions and a lack of political commitment to improving the living and working conditions of migrants. Field evidence …
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has reduced the cut-off age for child labour in hazardous industries from 18 to 14. A government resolution issued by the state labour department on March 2 stated that anyone employing children below 14 in hazardous industries will be prosecuted and fined Rs20,000 for each child …
Child labour is widespread in home-based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. However, very little is known of child labour in industrial outwork. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, to understand whether children in home-based work households are more likely to …
- City NGO to provide free medical treatment through hospital tie-up ANTARA BOSE Some respite for child workers Jamshedpur, March 9: A city NGO has now decided to launch a card to good health by providing identity tags to children living in the margins and providing them with free access …
This paper analyses current policy and legislation in relation to the praxis of artisanal gold mining in Mozambique. Approximately 20,000 people are involved in artisanal mining in central Mozambique, producing annually 480–600 kg of gold, 85–90% of which remains in the informal economy. The current legislation, however, is inadequate: artisanal …
Child labour needs to be redefined. Some of it is need-based, but most of it is greed-based Deepali, 12, who is forced to do domestic chores, was born to migrant parents. She dreams of going to school in the morning, riding a bicycle and playing badminton in the evening like …
With varying statistics on the number of kids in child labour (between six to 100 million), the ministry of panchayati raj believes the government needs to follow the Kerala model and use panchayats to track down the status of every child drop-out. Mr A.N.P Sinha, secretary of the ministry of …
When the economic downturn nosedived in the second half of 2008, the talk was primarily about macro-economic trends, causes and impacts in the formal economy. In India, where over 90% of the livelihoods lie in the informal sector, it was however unclear what the specific impacts were. We already knew …
Wal-Mart has told suppliers to stop buying cotton from Uzbekistan to try to end forced child labour in cotton harvesting. The world's largest retailer said it had formed a coalition representing 90 per cent of US purchases of cotton and cotton-based merchandise. On September 12 the Uzbek government issued a …
Over 30,000 children under the age of 14 years are employed in shops, boutiques and majority secretly employed in the domestic sector. Apart from that sexual exploitation of children by local and foreign tourists is also found to be on the rise. Labour Commissioner Ms. Pearl Weerasinghe told The Island …
The main objectives of the Ministry of Labour and Employment are the following : Labour Policy and legislation; Safety, health and welfare of labour; Social security of labour; Policy relating to special target groups such as women and child labour; Industrial relations and enforcement of labour laws in the Central …
Migrant child labour at Attur pegged at 38,000; officials say agriculture not under Child Labour Act Salem G Rajasekaran AGRARIAN crisis may have forced farmers to switch over to Bt cotton much against the warnings of environmentalists but not without unacceptable fallouts. For 10 months after UNICEF brought out the …
The workforce in carpet industry which generated $200 million through exports in 2005 comprise most vulnerable, marginalised and dispersed population which also included children, says a recent study conducted by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on Bonded Child Labour in the carpet industry of Thar. At least …
The number of child labourers is increasing alarmingly in the coastal district of Patuakhali as poverty forces them to work for earning livelihood, according to a study. At present, over 21,000 children below 12 years of old are engaged in different odd jobs in the district, says the study conducted …
AHMEDABAD: The state government has resolved to free the state from child labour by 2010 and has prepared a state action plan towards this goal. As part of this project, a three-day training programme
The Centre has decided to adopt a somewhat novel approach to check the use of child labour by big companies and business groups in the country. Instead of cracking the whip on them, it has decided to rope them in to check the menace by drawing up an action plan …
