Abuse among Child Domestic Workers: A research study in West Bengal
This report reveals alarming levels of emotional, physical and sexual abuse among children working as domestic helpers.
- Published
- August 2006
More than 50,000 children are employed in domestic work in the Indian city of Wet Bengal.
This study - carried out by Save the Children over a four-year period in six districts of West Bengal - found that these children were routinely subjected to many different forms of abuse from unsafe working conditions and lack of food to being beaten, deliberately burnt or sexually abused.
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