Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The news of 12-year-old Purnima, being set alight by her employer and then left in a warehouse without any medical treatment...

Protecting the rights of children and providing the essentials for their development must be part of the definition of poverty reduction.

With child labour decreasing at a dismal rate of only 2.2 per cent per year; it would take more than a century to end the menace, says a report.