Indian Manufactured Items Blacklisted in U.S. for Child Labour

 More than half of them are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities including drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict”.

The facts are overwhelming, yet if India is a part of such malice, appropriate measures needs to taken to wash the blame, and be the support in abolishing such heinous act.

The other items mentioned where child labour is enforced are bricks, carpets, hybrid cottonseed, brassware, locks, fireworks, yarn and fabric, incense sticks, rice and stones. However the percentage of children employed in the productions of these items isn’t mentioned, the report only shows the items for which they are made to work.

The report also shows that this concern is seen in greater number in the south Asian countries as compared worldwide, it accounts for 55 percent of forced labour globally. As per the 2010 annual listings by the US labour department, an estimate of 57,000 children, between the ages of 5 to 17 are made to work in carpet industries mostly in India, Nepal and Pakistan.