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SC issues notices to Centre on PIL seeking ban on employment of children in orchestras, spasThe Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, NCPCR, and NHRC regarding a PIL. The petition seeks a complete ban on employing childre...- Quote of the Day by Kailash Satyarthi: ‘For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad...’ - What the Nobel laureate understood about turning frustration into social changeQuote of the Day by Kailash Satyarthi challenges the notion that anger is always destructive. He advocates for transforming anger stemming ...
- Murshidabad’s forgotten crisis: Beedi workers struggle amid charged political debates, SIR deletionsIn Murshidabad's beedi belt, children work alongside mothers to meet daily targets. Families earn meager wages for rolling beedis. Contract...
- ‘Plan your days better’: Junior accountant finds boss’s polite request a sugarcoated push for extra work without payA junior accountant’s Reddit post has sparked debate after she claimed her manager’s “polite” requests to arrive early and stay late quietl...
- Where is Tiffany Smith now? ‘Momager’ behind Piper Rockelle’s empire now out of spotlightTiffany Smith, the mother and former manager of social media star Piper Rockelle, faced serious allegations in a 2022 lawsuit involving the...
- Child labor to be permitted in Florida? State debates as jobs go vacant following departure of undocumented immigrantsFlorida is considering reducing child labor protections to address labor shortages caused by tighter immigration laws. A proposed bill woul...
- Every minute in India, three girls are forced into child marriageShocking stats reveal three girls forced into child marriage per minute in India. NCRB recorded 3,863 cases (2018-2022); 16 lakh estimated ...
- Child social media stars have few protections, Illinois aims to fix thatThe Illinois bill would entitle child influencers under the age of 16 to a percentage of earnings based on how often they appear on video b...
- Alone and exploited, migrant children work brutal jobs across the U.S.These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation: Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parent...
- Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surgesTwitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of ...
- 'Choked me when I was 16, made me dress as Girl Scout': Skeletons from R Kelly's closet unravel at trial as accuser takes standKelly also made her do her hair in pigtails during sex, which he filmed.
- 'Predator' R Kelly used fame to groom girls for decades: Prosecutors tell the court as trial beginsThe 54-year-old is charged with racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and forced labor between 1994 and 2018.
- India faces lost generation as coronavirus worsens an already bad child-labour problemEven before the outbreak, India was struggling to keep children in school. A 2018 study by DHL International GmBH estimated that more than ...
- Recent laws have legalised child labour in India: Activist Ruchira Gupta"Both laws together will make 80 per cent of victims of human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation invisible," she said.
- US praises Kailash Satyarthi for relentless work for children rightsThe United States praised Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi for "relentlessly working" for children's rights and keeping them in s...
- Resolution in US Senate to honour Kaliash Satyarthi, Malala YousafzaiThe Senate resolution recognizes Satyarthi and Malala as symbols of peace and advocates for ending the financial exploitation of children.
- US to determine whether child labour is used in Indian carpetsThe US also added cotton and sugarcane to the already existing child labour produced list from India, which now has crossed the two dozen m...
- Kailash Satyarthi: Electrical engineer, child rights activist & now Nobel winnerSatyarthi has always been concerned about the plight of child labourers and it finally prompted him to start an organised movement.
- US Congressional resolution introduced to condemn untouchabilityAn influential American lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking India, Nepal and other South Asian countries to end ...
- Giving birth becomes the latest job outsourced to India as commercial surrogacy takes offEvery night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs i...
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