Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports

India

Bidis (hand-rolled cigarettes)
Bidis (hand-rolled cigarettes)
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Brassware
Brassware
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Bricks
Bricks
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Carpets
Carpets
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Cotton
Cotton
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Cottonseed (hybrid)
Cottonseed (hybrid)
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Embellished Textiles
Embellished Textiles
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Fireworks
Fireworks
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Footwear
Footwear
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Garments
Garments
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Gems
Gems
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Glass Bangles
Glass Bangles
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Incense (agarbatti)
Incense (agarbatti)
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Leather Goods/Accessories
Leather Goods/Accessories
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Locks
Locks
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Matches
Matches
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Mica
Mica
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Rice
Rice
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sandstone
Sandstone
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Silk Fabric
Silk Fabric
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Silk Thread
Silk Thread
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Soccer Balls
Soccer Balls
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Stones
Stones
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane
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Thread/Yarn
Thread/Yarn
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Tea
Tea
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India
2022 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor:

Moderate Advancement

In 2022, India made moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The Railway Protection Force launched a nationwide campaign that intercepted 183 children from human trafficking perpetrated on trains and in railway stations. In Haryana, the police department removed 1,760 children from child labor, while the Haryana state Anti-Human Trafficking Unit reunited 378 child trafficking victims with their families. Additionally, from April 2021 to March 2022, the National Child Labor Project Scheme removed and rehabilitated 13,271 from child labor. However, children in India are vulnerable to the worst forms of child labor, including commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Children also perform dangerous tasks in garment production, stone quarrying, and brickmaking. Existing hazardous work prohibitions do not include all occupations in which children work for long periods in unsafe and unhealthy environments, and penalties for illegally employing children are insufficient to deter violations. Reports of corruption at varying levels among police and other government officials, leading to the mistreatment of victims and delayed prosecutions of child labor offenses remained a concern. Children continue to experience commercial sexual exploitation and other forms of abuse in shelter homes that operate without sufficient government oversight. In addition, the Government of India continued to restrict foreign donations to NGOs, many of which work on human and child rights issues, through an amendment to the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. The authorities sometimes used the threat of cancelling or revoking this Act to silence or restrict civil society organizations that might be working to address human rights concerns, including the worst forms of child labor.

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