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6 more sectors declared free of child labour

With this, the government has so far declared eight industries free of child labour

A photo of International Labour Organizations flag (ILO) Photo: Collected

ILO launching the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

FILE PHOTO: Carlsberg beer cans are seen at a pub in Mumbai, India, October 20, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

South Asia & China

Carlsberg India probes find 'potential improper payments', child labour

To tackle the economic crisis in Covid-19, many children are force into child labour, where usually these children are made to work on a "no work, no pay" basis. Photo: Unicef.

Putting an end to child labour in South Asia

Govt determined to make Bangladesh free from child labour to achieve SDGs: Secy

Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, takes part in a panel in New York, September 27, 2015. Photo: Reuters

Coronavirus chronicle

India's Nobel laureate fears upsurge in child labour as pandemic shrivels economy

KM Ali Reza. Illustration: TBS

Universal ratification of ILO child labour convention: What does it mean to migrant children?

Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 could wipe out child labour progress of 20 years, warns UN

When economic activities were halted, children who worked as domestic workers or daily wage-earners were rendered jobless, with no money to buy food. Photo: Mumit M

Covid-19 making things worse for children

Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 may push millions more into child labour: ILO, Unicef

Rubel, worker in the factory sorting scrap typers for cutting. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS

Wheels of misfortune

Economy sees imbalanced development

Economy sees imbalanced development