Child Labour

Restrictions on education and freedoms, combined with chronic poverty and lack of future opportunities, have fuelled high levels of distress.

The coming months will reveal how aggressively India pursues investigations and enforces prohibitions.

Long-term, the ban may accelerate Sri Lanka’s shift toward higher-value, transparent manufacturing.

Communities like those in Bajhang demonstrate remarkable resilience, but they cannot sustain the current trajectory alone.

Analysts suggest a balanced outcome might involve India strengthening its own forced labour import monitoring mechanisms while securing phased tariff reductions and dispute resolution clauses that provide greater predictability for Indian exporters.

The Centre for Child Rights is the oldest centre of NLUO, the second oldest child rights centre at any NLU, and the only Chair Professorship on child rights amongst any university in the country.

According to the Taliban’s own Commission for the Collection of Beggars and Prevention of Begging, nearly 75,000 individuals – 74,968 to be precise – have been rounded up from Kabul’s streets since the nationwide campaign began in 2022.

Violence against children emerged as another pressing issue. The committee raised alarms over sexual violence, particularly against boys, gender-based violence, corporal punishment, and online abuse.