CHILD Protection & Rights > Child Protection Issues.

Interesting organizations and campaigns with data and analyses on Child labor:

- Butterflies. Programmes for street children, labor children and recovery children. India: http://www.butterflieschildrights.org/profile.asp

- Concern for working child. India: www.workingchild.org

- CRIN: http://www.crin.org/themes/ViewTheme.asp?id=3

- Human Rights Watch: http://hrw.org/children/labor.htm

- International Labor Organization:
http://www.ilo.org/global/Themes/Child_Labour/lang--en/index.htm

- OXFAM:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/world/india/indioxf3.htm

- Ministry of labor. Government of India: http://labour.nic.in/

- PLAN:
http://www.plan-international.org/resources/position/childlabour/

- Save the Children. International Alliance:
http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/what_we_do/child_protection/index.
html

- Save the Children. India:
http://www.savethechildren.in/india/key_sectors/child_labour.html

- UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html

More information on the Global March against Child Labor: http://www.globalmarch.org/

More information on the Global March against child labour in India: http://www.igovernment.in/campaign-against-child-labour/ and
www.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/india.pdf

Save the Children UK, Eye to Eye with Child Labour: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoeye/childlabour/index.htm

Read more about Child labor:

- MDG and child labour. Joint publication UNICEF, World Bank, ILO, 2003. Available online:
http://www.worldforum2007.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mdg_and_cl.pdf

- Caution - Children at Work: Galvanizing Communities to End Child Labor, CRIN, 2007. Available online:
http://www.crin.org/docs/CautionChildrenat Work.pdf

- Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India’s Silk Industry. Human Rights Watch, 2003: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/india/

- The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child labor in India. Human Rights Watch, 1996: http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/India3.htm

- Abuse among child domestic workers, Save the Children, UK,
More than 50,000 children are employed in this kind of work in the Indian city and the study - carried out by Save the Children over a four-year period in six districts of West Bengal - found that these children were routinely subjected to many different forms of abuse from unsafe working conditions and lack of food to being beaten, deliberately burnt or sexually abused.
Available online:
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/abuse_amongst_Child_Domestic_
Workers_in_India.pdf

- Children at work, Save the Children, International Alliance, 2003.
A framework for Save the Children programmes which address the issue of children and work. Save the Children seeks to ensure that girls and boys are protected against harmful work. We accept neither blanket bans of all child work nor an approach which unequivocally promotes children's work.
Available online:
http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/resources/child_wk.pdf

- The State of the World's Children 1997: Focus on Child Labour. UNICEF, 1996.
Available online: http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_7595.html

Read more about Child labor in India:

-- Subgroup Report on Child Protection for the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012). Ministry of Women and Child Development, 26-29. Available online:
http://wcd.nic.in/wgchilprotection.pdf

- An alternative report on the status of child labour in India: available on CRIN Web-site http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.23/India_
CACL_NGO_Report.pdf

- INDIA: Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain, CRIN, 2007.
The report contains a number of cases on the plight of children working in the cotton fields and analysis the situation of these children as well as the behaviour of the companies.
Available online: http://www.indianet.nl/childbondagecotton.html

- Status of Children in India. HAQ Centre for Child Rights, 2005.

- Female Foeticide, coerced marriage and bonded labor in Haryana and Punjab: a situational analysis. Shakti Vahini, 2003. Available online: http://www.shaktivahini.org/assets/templates/default/images/situationalreport.pdf

- UNICEF Database on child labour in India. Joint publication UNICEF, World Bank, ILO, 2001, 95 pages. Available online:
http://www.ucw-project.org/pdf/publications/standard_DataBase_IndiaFinal.pdf

- My name is today. Butterflies. Special issue: Child domestic workers. Volume XII. No1, 2004. Informal Sector. Volume XI No. 1,2003. Purchase possible online: http://www.butterflieschildrights.org/books.asp