The recent death of a 10-year-old Irula tribal boy in a brick kiln in Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu, India under mysterious circumstances has prompted rights’ groups to urge the district administration to carry out a detailed inspection in its brick kilns to verify whether child labour is prevalent.
The members of Evidence’s fact-finding team said they found 30 children working in such kilns in the village.
For more detailed information please read Child labour prevalent in Namakkal brick kilns: rights group
More than 200 million children in the world today are involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging to his or her mental, physical and emotional development. Children work because their survival and that of their families depend on it. Child labour persists even where it has been declared illegal, and is frequently surrounded by a wall of silence, indifference, and apathy.-ILO
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