Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Human Rights violations of children through child labour in India: An Overview

  • Author:
  • Gopal Krishan1,
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 132 to 136

1Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Asst. Prof., Dept. of Pol. Sc., Gobindgarh Public College, Alour, Khanna

*Corresponding Author: Gopal Krishan, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Pol. Sc., Gobindgarh Public College, Alour, Khanna

Online published on 21 November, 2013.

Abstract

This paper analyses the issue of human rights violation of children through child labour in India. In the beginning the issue of human rights of children has been conceptualized. In which it has been stated how child labour violates the human rights of children. Further the magnitude of child labour has been examined from governmental sources and non-governmental sources..Thereafter this paper analyses the legal and constitutional measures which protect the human rights of children in India. These include the Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy, Fundamental Duties and various acts passed by Government of India. Thus this paper endeavors to analyse the issue of human rights violations of children in the given perspective.

Keywords

Human Rights, Child Labour, Violations, Magnitude, Constitutional, Legal, Institutional, Conventions