India – Bachpan Bachao Andolan

“The new security measures have greatly reduced staffs fear of another attack”. The Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) works to end bonded child labour and to ensure that all children are free from exploitation and receive free and quality education. Their strategies include secret raid and rescue operations and legal intervention to liberate children in bonded labour. They also have three residential centres for the rehabilitation and education of children rescued from bonded labour.

One of the residential rehabilitation centers,the Mukti Ashram has been attacked on two separate occasions by mobs of factory owners. Both times the human rights activists thwarted the attacks, standing up to the attackers with great courage, till the police arrived. Front Line provided the BBA with a security grant with which they installed CCTV cameras in their Delhi offices and they extended the boundary wall and fence at the Mukti Ashram. The new security measures have greatly reduced staffs fear of another attack.