Indian bill allowing children to work for their families attacked by activists

[WorldNews]

By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian activists have criticized a bill that bans the employment of children under 14 in more than a dozen occupations, but allows them to work for their family businesses, saying the legislation justified child labor. India's upper house of parliament passed an amendment to the Child Labour Act late on Tuesday, which would allow children under 14 to help their parents with home-based work, including farming, after school hours and during holidays. "The law is being changed after 30 years and yet it has found a way to justify some form of child labor," said Enakshi Ganguly, a founder of the charity, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.

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