New hope for child rights after India gets tough on traffickers
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Campaigners hailed new hope for child rights on Thursday after a trafficker who tricked five Indian boys into menial work with the promise of better schooling was awarded a rare life sentence. “This is just the beginning,” Narendra Sikhwal, head of Jaipur’s child welfare committee, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It […]
India’s tourist magnet starts to clean child labour “blot”
Jaipur, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation In a small windowless room in the heart of Indian tourist magnet Jaipur, Parveena shows a school uniform and tiny shoes to prove that the little boy sitting on the floor, sticking beads on a bangle goes to school and is not a child slave. Parveena, who would only give her […]
SNAPSHOT: HAWA MAHAL, JAIPUR, INDIA
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