Political Science · Ch 2 — Rights in the Indian Constitution
Right against Exploitation
Right against Exploitation
Articles 23 and 24 make up the Right against Exploitation, and they are unusual
among the Fundamental Rights in binding private individuals directly, not just the state. Article 23
prohibits traffic in human beings (such as buying and selling people, particularly women and
children, for exploitation) and prohibits begar and other forms of forced labour, in which a person
is compelled to work without payment or against their will.
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Article 24 specifically prohibits the employment of children below the age of fourteen in factories,
mines, or any other hazardous employment. Both provisions respond to real and long-standing forms of
exploitation in Indian society -- bonded labour, human trafficking, and child labour in dangerous …