Indian child workers on the rise as coronavirus forces them out of school

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India’s children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labour problem that was already one of the most dire in the world.Maheshwari Munkalapally, 16, and her 15-year-old sister stopped attending lessons when virtually the entire economy was brought to a halt during the world’s biggest lockdowns.Maheshwari’s mother and older sister lost their jobs as housemaids in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana…

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