INDIA
SMALL CHANGE:
Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry
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Supplementary Materials
What You Can Do
Children's Testimonies from "Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry"
The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India HRW Report, 1996
Photos and drawings from Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry
I. SUMMARY Poverty, Education and Caste India's Legal Obligations Scope and Methodology
II. RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations to the Government of India Recommendations to State Governments Recommendations to the International Community Recommendations to Retailers, Suppliers, and Indian and International Consumers
III. BACKGROUND Overview of Bonded Child Labor The Indian Silk Industry
How Silk is Produced Government and International Support for the Indian Silk Industry
Areas Covered by this Report
Karnataka Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu
IV. BONDED CHILD LABOR IN THE INDIAN SILK INDUSTRY Making Silk Thread-Reeling and Twisting
Reeling Twisting Children's Testimonies Structure of the Bondage in Silk Reeling and Twisting Working Conditions in Silk Reeling and Twisting Employer Abuse in Silk Reeling and Twisting
Moriculture and Cocoon Raising Weaving Saris
Children's Testimonies Structure of the Bondage in Silk Weaving Work-Related Injuries in Silk Weaving Employer Abuse in Silk Weaving
V. CASTE-BASED DISCRIMINATION AND BONDED LABOR
VI. THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT'S ROLE Overview of the Two Systems: Bonded Labor and Child Labor
Bonded Labor
District, State, and National Responsibility for Bonded Labor Government Failure to Protect Children with the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 Data Collection about Bonded Labor Rehabilitation of Bonded Laborers Prosecutions and Convictions
Child Labor
Acknowledgment of the Child Labor Problem Enforcing the Child Labor Law Finding and Freeing Child Workers Prosecuting Violators Loopholes and Weaknesses in the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 Other Barriers to Enforcing the Child Labor Law Rehabilitation of Child Workers The National Child Labour Policy (NCLP) and the National Authority for the Elimination of Child Labour Other State-Level and Nongovernmental Initiatives to Address Child Labor
Night Schools in Tamil Nadu Nongovernmental Programs
Rehabilitation-Cum-Welfare Funds
The National Human Rights Commission's Work on Bonded Labor and Child Labor
A Lack of Political Will
Sympathy for and Pressure from Employers Corruption Caste Bias
The Failure to Protect Bonded Children Education
VII. LEGAL FRAMEWORK International Law Indian Law
Bonded Labor Caste and Bonded Labor Child Labor The Right to Education
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
