On World Day against Child Labour, meet fifteen-year-old Divya who doesn’t mince her words when it comes to fighting against child labour and upholding the cause of child rights. “Next time you think of employing a child in work, imagine your own child in his place and then take a call,” she says in a hard-hitting, matter-of-fact manner. The confident teenager knows what she is talking about; after all, it’s thanks to her efforts that no child in her panchayat is employed in any work and attends school instead. “You think child labour cannot be eliminated? Yes it can be, and I will show you how,”

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