Documentation

The purpose of this section is to make available to the readers official documents such as reports of committees, commissions, working groups, task forces, etc., appointed by various ministries, departments, and agencies of central and state governments which are not readily accessible either because they are old, or because of the usual problems of acquiring governmental publications, or because they were printed but not published, or because they were not printed and remained in mimeographed form. It will be difficult and probably not worthwhile to publish the documents entirely. We shall publish only such parts of them as we think will interest our readers. The readers are requested to send their suggestions regarding official documents or parts thereof for inclusion in this section.

In the present section, we publish a few reports and other material relating to the subject of Child Labour:

* Small Hands in South Asia: Child Labour in Perspective - Introduction.

* Committee on Child Labour, 1919: Report.

* Employment of Children-Protective Legal Provisions.

* Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.

* National Policy on Child Labour, 1987.

* M.C. Mehta Versus State of Tamil Nadu:Judgement of the Supreme Court of India, 1991.

* The Constitution (Eighty-Sixth Amendment) Act, 2002.

* Report of the Second National Commission on Labour, 2002, Chapter IX , Part B.

* National Charter for Children, 2003.

* National Child Labour Projects.

* United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on Child Labour (IAWG-CL): Activities.

* Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour: Media Workshop by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Child Labour.

* The Rugmark Foundation.

* Trade and Environment Database: Case Studies.

* International labour Organisation Convention: C 138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973.

* International labour Organisation Convention:C 182 Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst forms of Child Labour, 2000.

* United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child. 1989.

* NGO Group for Convention on the Rights of the Child: Alternative Report on the Status of Child Labour in India.

* Observations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, 1997.

* Action Taken on the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on Child Rights.

* United Nations Review of Second Periodic Report of India, 2004.

* Every Child Counts: New Global Estimates on Child Labour.

* Investing in Every Child: An Economic Study of the Costs and Benefits of Eliminating Child Labour.