Latest News for: child labour

Edit

Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths under threat, warns the United Nations

World Health Organization 25 Mar 2025
Since 2000, child deaths have dropped by more than half and stillbirths by over a third, fuelled by sustained investments in child survival worldwide ... “Bringing preventable child deaths to a record low is a remarkable achievement.
Edit

Swabi traders hire underage boys for harvesting pea crop

Dawn 25 Mar 2025
Vegetable traders have hired underage boys for harvesting pea crops in violation of child labour laws, it was learnt here on Monday ... Every child is paid according to as many sacks he fills in a day.
Edit

Our research shows the harm the two-child limit on benefits is doing. Only scrapping it ...

The Conversation 25 Mar 2025
Since the UK Labour government took office in summer 2024, calls have intensified to scrap both the “two-child limit” – which restricts support for children through universal credit to two children – and the overall benefit cap.
Edit

'Horrific': Luxon won't rule out heads rolling over girl's mistaken identity

RNZ 25 Mar 2025
Officers also handcuffed the child ... "I mean, we are all extremely disappointed and extremely upset that this has happened to a child that was in our care ... "Every child in our country has a right to be safe in our communities.
Edit

Amber Le Bon details traumatic 40-hour labour that left her in 'shock' after revealing she's ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Amber Le Bon detailed her traumatic 40-hour labour after revealing on Monday she has welcomed her first child ... Amber Le Bon detailed her traumatic 40-hour labour after revealing on Monday she has welcomed her first child (stock image).
Edit

Two years on, Bal Mandirs for transgender children remain empty

The Times of India 24 Mar 2025
The doctor said I cannot have a child. I came to Bengaluru to work as a construction labourer and cleared all my loans ... The doctor said I cannot have a child. I came to Bengaluru to work as a construction labourer and cleared all my loans.
Edit

Human rights laws may just reverse Labour's private school VAT raid

The Daily Telegraph 24 Mar 2025
no child shall be denied access to education, nor should they be discriminated against, either by virtue of their special educational needs or their parents’ religious beliefs ... in Labour’s manifesto.
Edit

Mind the Gap: Mardangi reloaded: Why we need to change the narrative on ‘masculinity’

Hindustan Times 24 Mar 2025
... the rising crime rate, the aspiration of teenage girls, female labour force participation, unpaid care work, legal protections, maternal and child health, reservation in Parliament and the assemblies.
Edit

Reeves’s dilemma: break your tax pledges or cast Labour adrift from its principles

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
But such is the caution about cost that Paskins says experts who work on this issue are now genuinely asking themselves, “Is this going to be the first ever Labour government under which child poverty ...
Edit

The Observer view on the spring statement: cutting spending is not the only option, chancellor

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
They would increase disability and child poverty and further undermine the provision of public services, an indefensible record for the first term of a Labour government ... under Labour’s existing plans.
Edit

Woman delivers stillborn & dies, quack, hospital owner held in Dadri

The Times of India 23 Mar 2025
Based on the findings of guilt in the report, a police case was registered.On Jan 2, Komal was admitted to the hospital after she experienced labour pain. During the delivery, the woman and child died ...
Edit

India’s incense industry moves towards a child labour-free future

Madhyamam 22 Mar 2025
... a significant decline in child labour cases, according to a new study.
Edit

Smell Of Change: Incense Industry On Path To A Child Labour-Free Future

NDTV 22 Mar 2025
Child labour in the incense manufacturing industry, a longstanding concern for India, is declining significantly and the sector is moving towards complete freedom from child labour in Karnataka,... .
Edit

Odisha reports 3 child marriages daily, Nabarangpur district tops list

Hindustan Times 22 Mar 2025
Alongside underage marriage, the state also grapples with the challenge of child labour ... Similarly, 107 child labourers have been rescued from different parts of the state in 2022-23 and 44 the next year.
×