AUGUST 29: JOIN US IN DELHI

Aim:TO END CHILD SLAVERY IN INDIA

What: Petition Delivery to the Indian Parliament
When: Thursday, August 29 - Assembly time is 10:30 am to 11 am
Where: Indian Parliament - Assembly point is opposite Janta Dal (United) Party Office, Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi

RSVP on the right so we know how many people we can expect. (We have free Walk Free shirts for the first 50 RSVPs!)

We are calling the Indian Parliament to pass the "Child and Adolescent Labour Abolition Bill," which: 1) prohibits employment of children under 14 years of age, 2) outlines harsh sentences for violators, and 3) provides for monitoring of suspected cases of child slavery.

Right now, millions of children in India—some as young as 5 years-old—are kept from school and forced to work 7 days a week for up to 18 hours a day in hazardous situations. Because these children are often left illiterate and plagued with health problems, they are—in a cruel twist of fate—less likely to find employment once they reach adulthood.

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This continued enslavement of children traps generations of Indians in a vicious cycle of slavery, illiteracy and poverty.This legislation that would put an end to the enslavement of children in India, but the Parliament has delayed putting it to a vote. It risks not passing without a demonstration of mass public support.

Join us in delivering 1,010,917 signatures calling on the Indian Parliament to immediately pass the Child and Adolescent Labour Abolition Bill and end child slavery in India.