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 ...

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 ...

Study finds Indian women spend significantly more time on childcare than men, impacting labor force participation rates.

In drought-prone areas, migration for work disrupts families, leading to challenges like disrupted education and child labor. UNICEF, with district authorities, pushes for family-based care. Under the ...

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 ...

According to the Crime in India report of National Crime Records Bureau, from 2018 to 2022, only six cases were registered under the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation ...

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 ...

In the drought-prone villages in many parts of the country, seasonal migration forces families into impossible choices.

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.) ...