CHILD SERVITUDE IN INDIA-SMALL HANDS OF SLAVERY!

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Note 1 - 2001 figure,* Human Development Report 2007 - 08**.*
Note 2 - The scope of this overview has been limited to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Note 3 - Children engaged in economic activity, including both paid and unpaid, casual and illegal work, as well as work in the informal sector, but excluding unpaid domestic services within own household.
Note 4 - Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS): Report on national child labour survey 2002/03 (Dhaka, 2003), survey undertaken with the support of the ILO.
Note 5 - Registrar General, Government of India: Census of India, 2001, Working children in India: An analysis of the 2001 census data.
Note 6 - Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuwan University:* Child labour situation in Nepal — Report from migration and employment survey, 1995/96 *(Kathmandu, 1997), survey undertaken with the support of the ILO.
Note 7 - Federal Bureau of Statistics: National child labour survey in Pakistan (Islamabad, 1996), survey undertaken with the support of the ILO. This figure does not include children engaged in economic activity occasionally or on a part-time basis.
Note 8 - Department of Census & Statistics, Ministry of Finance & Planning: *Child activity survey *(Sri Lanka, 1999), survey undertaken with the support of the ILO.
Note 9 - Given the hidden nature of child domestic work, these figures must be viewed as indicative only.
Note 10 - UNICEF International Child Development Centre: Child domestic workers (Florence, 1999).
Note 11 - UNICEF: Child domestic workers in south Asia (Kathmandu, 2001).
Note 12 - UNICEF International Child Development Centre: *Child domestic workers *(Florence, 1999).
Note 13 - UNICEF: Child domestic workers in south Asia (Kathmandu, 2001).
Note 14 - CAS Survey Sri Lanka (1999).
Note 15 - Figure provided by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India.
Note 16 - W. Rahman: Hazardous child labour in Bangladesh, Department of Labour in collaboration with the ILO (Dhaka, 1996).
Note 17 - Federal Bureau of Statistics: National child labour survey in Pakistan (Islamabad, 1996).
Note 18 - Department of Census & Statistics, Ministry of Finance & Planning: Child activity survey Sri Lanka (Colombo, 1999).
Note 19 - IPEC monitoring reports.
Note 21 - This figure is based on IPEC project survey conducted in the carpet industry in the province of the Punjab in 2001. The Punjab Province had 107,065 children below the age of 15 years and 57,890 children between the ages of 15 and 17 years working full time in the carpet industry. The Punjab accounts for about 80 per cent of Pakistan’s total carpet production. Since carpet weaving is a hazardous activity, the desired age for workers is more than 17 years. Therefore, the extrapolated figure for Pakistan would come to 206,194.
Note 22 - Joint study conducted by the Ministries of Home, Social Welfare and Women and Children Affairs.
Note 23 - US Department of State: Country reports on human rights practice 2000 (February 2001).
Note 24 - Rapid assessment by IPEC (2001).
Note 25 - Estimation by an NGO, Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aids (LHRLA) (2002).
Note 26 - LHRLA.
Note 27 - Idem.
Note 28 - IPEC Project for Combating Child Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation, estimation based on a number of reports.
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