2. Assess child labour impacts 3. Integrate and take action on child labour impacts 4. Track performance on child labour 5. Communicate performance on child labour 6. Stakeholder engagement 7. Remedy and grievance mechanisms20 In addition, the OECD has issued sector-specific due diligence guidance for companies to address the worst …

Noida, Jun 1 (PTI) In a significant operation aimed at eradicating child labour, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) team of the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police rescued 14 children on Saturday. "The campaign targeted child labourers under the age of 18. During the operation, the AHTU team, in collaboration with the NGO Care For You, NGO Rising ...

14 Child Labourers Rescued from Firework Factory - Rohan Kaushik, Student Staff Reporter. Sivakasi, 20 th March, 2021. Fourteen innocent children in the age group of nine to thirteen years were found being exploited by an owner of a fireworks factory in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. They were illegally being made to work in highly hazardous conditions ...

Change Communication Strategy for Elimination of Child Labor in Nigeria (2020–2023). However, children in Nigeria are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in quarrying granite, artisanal mining, commercial sexual exploitation, and use in armed conflict, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking.

The Dutch NGOs said half the granite and 10% of all stone exports in the world come from India, where quarries still have bonded and child labour. The NGOs are Stop Child Labour, India Committee of the Netherlands, and Kerk in Actie (Church in Action). Their report is called The Dark Sites of Granite (download it here), which tracks …

To further reduce child labour in supply chains (Granite Quarry, Rice Farming, Artisanal Gold Mining and Cocoa Farming), Nigeria is operating a Conditional …

and Glenn McKenzie ~ The Associated Press COTONOU, Benin -- Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment Thursday after their rescue from Nigerian granite quarries where they were forced to work as virtual prisoners...

Child labour also occurs frequently. Most Dutch importers of Indian granite give no information from which quarries they are sourcing their granite or say they do not know from which quarries the stone comes from. This is the main outcome of the report 'Rock Bottom – Modern Slavery and Child Labour in South Indian Granite Quarries'

Many Nigerian children are executing works in both rural and urban areas under hazardous condition, such as child domestic labour, child sexual exploitation, and agricultural labour.

young as 4 received medical treatment Thursday after their rescue from Nigerian. granite quarries where they were forced to work. ... by traffickers and sold as child labor. Authorities in Benin ...

Forced child labor in the production of Brazil nuts is known to be found in the Amazon region in particular, and migrant workers are particularly vulnerable. ... mostly boys ages 4-17, are forced to quarry granite in Nigeria. Some children are abducted and trafficked from within Nigeria and from Benin to work in granite quarries and mines in ...

An Indian working at a stone quarry in Dimapur (Picture: Getty Images) Concerns over slavery and child labour has forced John and Habitat to withdraw a range of granite worktops from ...

COTONOU, BENIN - Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment …

ONIGONGON, Nigeria (AP) — Lured from home by the promise of a bicycle, Wasiu Goyikon entered a life of hard labor at 9 — smashing stones into gravel in Nigeria's

Two of the four children, rescued from the quarry, confessed to that they were working at the stone- crusher quarry and were given a remuneration of Rs5000 each by the labour department.

Between October and December 2003, over 500 children from the Republic of Benin were rescued from granite quarries and repatriated back to their country of origin, through a …

Child Labor . Child labor is the use of children in industry or business. ... mostly boys ages 4-17, are forced to quarry granite in Nigeria. Some children are abducted and trafficked from within Nigeria and from Benin to work in granite quarries and mines in the Federal Capital Territory, as well as the states of Ebonyi, Enugu, Ogun, Oyo, and ...

COTONOU, Benin — Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 required medical treatment after their rescue from Nigerian granite quarries ...

The first rescue under the pact came Sept. 27, when authorities brought back 116 children who had been put to work in the granite quarries of southwest Nigeria.

COTONOU, Benin - Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment …

Seventy-four boys ranging in age from 4 to 15 were rescued from Nigerian granite quarries where they had been forced to work, officials said. 74 Child Laborers Rescued From Nigeria - Los Angeles Times

This research examines optimization of blasting parameters for economic production of granite aggregates in Ratcon and NSCE quarries located atIbadan,OyoState. Samples were collected from the study areas for the determination of rock density and porosity. Schmidt hammer was used for in situ determination of rock …

Children exploited by traffickers in forced labour are found in locations including granite quarries and artisanal mines, construction sites, agriculture fields, and …

II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR CHILD LABOR Nigeria has ratified all key international conventions concerning child labor (Table 3). Table 3. Ratification of International Conventions on Child Labor Convention Ratification ILO C. 138, Minimum Age ILO C. 182, Worst Forms of Child Labor UN CRC UN CRC Optional Protocol on Armed Conflict

The first rescue under the pact came Sept. 27, when authorities brought back 116 children who had been put to work in the granite quarries of southwest Nigeria. Three of the children died later at a camp where Nigerian authorities brought them before repatriation, Olumefun said.

2023-10-19T01:10:10+00:00 Nigeria Granite Quarry StoneContact. 9 different colored Granite Quarries in Nigeria, All details regarding their locations, images, stock and block prices from their quarry owner Cibi Nigeria Limited is a Kaduna based indigenous granite quarrying and processing company established in 1992 Cibi has over the years involved …

In 2023, Nigeria made minimal advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The government, through the International Labor Organization's Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labor in Supply Chains in Africa Project, renovated Oke Agunla Community School and enrolled 110 children at risk of child labor.

Ragged, exhausted and scarred, 74 children apparently sold into bondage were on their way home on Thursday after being rescued from Nigerian granite quarries.

COTONOU, Benin — Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment …

Their report is called The Dark Sites of Granite (download it here), which tracks child labour, bonded labour and other labour rights violations. For the report, surveys were undertaken in 22 quarries.