"This is the beginning of the end of child labour in mica mines and that has to be maintained now, he added. Notably, in 2004, a research done by ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ had found that over ...

BBA workers, who have been trying to stop child labor in Jharkhand's mica mines for almost a decade, said Madan's death and the six others in the past two months were just the tip of the iceberg ...

Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny ...

declared that the Mica mines in Jharkhand are now ‘Child Labour Free’. With this monumental feat, the 20-year long journey to end child labour from Mica mining in the state has finally entered ...

on Friday claimed that illegal mica mines in Koderma district of Jharkhand are now ‘child labour-free’. NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo, while addressing a function in Koderma, said: “Today as I ...

Despite global gains on combatting child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, ...

has declared the mica mines in Jharkhand 'child labour free', NCPCR Chairman Priyank Kanoongo said at a programme here on Friday. Over 20,000 children from 684 villages in the mica mining area ...

The mica mines in Jharkhand's Koderma district are now free from child labour. This is a significant milestone in the region where child exploitation is rampant On the 5th of July, the Chairperson ...

Journalist Brando Barenzelli has traced the mica supply chains from the lost mines of the Indian countryside to the laboratories of major brands in Europe. He films the 8-year-old children who ...

RANCHI: In a landmark achievement for the state and country, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson on Friday declared Mica mines in Jharkhand as ‘Child ...