Child labour is a serious problem of Indian Community and Dr. Dube believes that children should play and learn and any kind of labour by them would not let them explore and develop their mind and body. He has spent significant years on child labour issues in the country. He has worked on issues connected with child labour through organizations, arranging various seminars, preventive remedies and campaigns against child labour. He has actively participated in rescue and rehabilitation of hundreds of children across the county. He has been part of many movements aiming elimination of child labour at the State and National level. He has also served as Chairperson of Core Committee on Child Rights in Uttar Pradesh. He has also creating awareness on legal aspects of child labours including the key points of the judgment “M.C. Mehta vs. State Of Tamil Nadu And Others (1996)”. He has extensively worked with children in Carpet, Bidi, Mining, Quarries, Brick Kilns, Glass, BT Cotton, Fire Crackers industries, and other unorganized sectors to rescue and rehabilitate the children from child labour.

Dr. Yogesh Dube has worked on various sections of Child Psychology including the child development, normal and abnormal behavior of the children, strategies and behavior modification techniques for undesirable behaviors. He has a fine understanding of the factors leading to maladaptive behaviors among the children and adolescents. He has participated extensively on seminar and workshops focusing on psycho-social intervention with disturbed children including the children in need of care and protection as a result of absence of any parental figure. He has comprehensive knowledge on various aspects connected to children with special needs. He has very good understating of the needs of the children in various juveniles home and observation homes, as he had made several visits to such homes for protection of children’s rights.

On the subject of child health, Dr. Yogesh Dube has organized various medical camps, seminars with child specialists and medical practitioners. He delivered awareness on mother and child health, nutrition, immunization, early development. He has organized various programs and seminars for the benefits of poor children who residing in poverty stricken rural and urban slum areas in the country. He constantly strives for balanced nutrition values in the children and timely immunization for pregnant mothers for healthy babies. He has successfully advocated for the quality anganwadi centres and nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRCs) for the malnourish children with state and national machineries. He has also taken initiatives for the renovation, modernization & establishment of health care system in various parts of the country including the 100 bedded hospital in Gorakhpur for patients suffering from Japanese encephalitis/AES, many primary health care centers etc. He also organized various public hearings focusing health issues of the children.

Dr. Yogesh Dube has worked on the issues of street child, children’s residing on railway platform, orphans eradication of bad habits like smoking of bidi, cigarettes, chewing pan and gutkha by the children of adolescence age. He has successfully counseled the importance of healthy life styles and children homes for the needy. He has successfully encouraged many of such children to improve their life, living standard by staying in shelters and orphanage. He has also worked on rehabilitation program for such children through inclusive approach.

He carried out various interventions in multi-sectors impacting the children’s survival, development, protection and participation. Concentrated efforts to reach to remote and marginalized children in village communities ensued into great satisfaction. He has intensively worked in various states including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Delhi & NCR region, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Dr. Yogesh Dube’s core achievements can be summarized as followings:

“World Day Against Child Labour” Campaigns: In collaboration with ILO and UNICEF, Dr. Yogesh Dube organized ceremonies to observe the “World Day Against Child Labour” for 3 consecutive years at the national level to highlight the practices and challenges in different forms of child labour in the country.

Child Labour Rescued in Hazardous Industries: Hazardous work, which is one of the worst forms of child labour and harms children’s physical, mental or moral health, was successfully intervened, campaigned and advocated by Dr. Yogesh Dube in several hazardous child labour industries like Carpet, Bidi, Mining, Quarries, Brick Kilns, Glass, BT Cotton, Fire Crackers etc. His rigorous attempts have effectively geared the District and State administrations to initiate State Action Plans in numerous States throughout the country. He has successfully addressed two largely invisible forms of child labour i.e. domestic child labour and migrant child labour in various States through direct intervention, campaigns, child welfare committees and mass media.

Advocacy for Policy Level Changes: Dr. Yogesh Dube made substantial efforts in advocating the policy level changes in laws relating to Child Labour, Juvenile Justice, Integrated Child Protection Scheme and Domestic Child Labour Welfare Plans. He has also advocated for Child Baal Samities, mid-day meals, child education and rehabilitation of children in need of care and protection at the State and National level. He took up various issues on child right with various political parties.

Mapping of Child Labour: Dr. Yogesh Dube had persuaded the State governments and District administrations in focused States to carry out proper mapping of the child labour in their respective geographical boundaries in a time bound manner. The prime purpose of such mappings was to bring attention on the extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it. Apart from the child labour issues he has also focused that the migrant working children are also victims of child trafficking and to protect the rights of such children he has actively voiced on issues of regulatory framework for the migrant workers and anti-trafficking action plans by the administrations.

State and District Level Task Force on Elimination of Child Labour: Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are among the States, where State and District level Task Forces have been formed with the prime objective of elimination of child labour, on the directions and resource assistance by Dr. Yogesh Dube.

Raids & Rescues: With his successful attempts, many trends were unfolded when it comes to bonded child labourers including the supply of children as bonded labourers to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Gujarat from poverty stricken states like Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The intrastate phenomena were also unearthed like supply of children to brick kilns in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Dr Yogesh Dube had played key roles in rescuing large number of children through direct intervention and children were successfully repatriated and rehabilitation.

Core Committee on Child Rights: The Core Committee on Child Rights was formed to curb the child labour in six child labour endemic districts (Aligarh, Firozabad, Moradabad, Sant Ravi Das Nagar (Bhadohi), Sonebhadra and Varanasi) of Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Yogesh Dube has successfully served the committee in the capacity of Chairperson for a substantial time period and achieved various milestones on Child rights issues.

Committee on Elimination of Child Labour in Mining & Quarries: Dr. Yogesh Dube has also served as Chairperson, Committee on Elimination of Child Labour in Mining & Quarries. The Committee had regular meetings for the protections of children’s rights and rehabilitation of child labourer. He has worked extensively with the child labour issues in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya.

Addressed the Issues of Child Trafficking: It was the intensive efforts of Dr. Yogesh Dube that interstate child trafficking, intrastate child trafficking and international child trafficking was highlighted at various levels especially at Indo-Nepal Border. A comprehensive frame of recommendations was developed and shared with concerned Ministries and State bodies to combat the trafficking of children for labour and other exploitative forms to ensure the protection of children’s rights. He has also advocated through meetings and deliberations for effective framework for the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTUs) in the country.

Safeguarded Vulnerability of Children in Natural Disaster: Being a known fact that children become further vulnerable to exploitation during disasters, Dr. Yogesh Dube took timely initiatives to ensure safeguarding the vulnerability of children during the recent catastrophe in Uttarakhand. It was Dr. Yogesh concentrated efforts that initiated processes for series of schemes and programmes for disaster affected families in Uttarakhand. He has also undertaken the issues of effective implementation of RTE Act, 2009 in civil unrest areas with senior officials at state and national level. Dr. Yogesh has also initiated steps to safeguarding the rights of the children affected due to violence and displacement in Muzzaffarnagar district & Shamli distirct, Uttar Pradesh.

He has also been part of various training cum capacity building programmes conducted by various prominent organizations including National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD). Dr. Yogesh Dube has also interaction meetings and deliberations with UNICEF in its programmes, consultations and campaigns to broaden the prospect of child rights.

Redressed Grievances on Child Rights Violation: Dr. Yogesh Dube has successfully handled numerous complaints on child right violation belonging to various States. Besides direct complaints, a number of Suo-Moto cognizance were also undertaken by him to address the violation of child rights by administrative authorities, police, schools, hospitals, policy/scheme implementers among others.

Regular Interaction with the Judiciary: Dr. Yogesh Dube had frequent interaction with Indian Judiciary System, State Legal Authorities, Bar Councils for effective promotion of child rights in the country. He had regular meetings and deliberation with different district and state Judiciaries on child rights, Juvenile Justice Act, etc.

Worked on Issues of Juveniles Languishing in Prisons of Different States: The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 directs that in no case a juvenile in conflict with law shall be placed in a police lockup or be lodged in a Jail. During his visits to Tihar in Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jaipur, Moradabad, Dhanbad, Agra and many other districts, inspections were carried out by Dr. Yogesh Dube, to District/ Central Jails to find out if there were any juvenile kept in Jails due to wrong recording of age during the investigation. Among the under-trials as well as convicted inmates in these Jails numerous inmates claimed that they were below the age of 18 years on the date of offence for which they have been accused. However, only few of those inmates told that they had documents to prove their claim, but majority of them did not have any proof of age. It was found as gross violation of Juvenile Justice Act and Child Rights. Though, the spot recommendations were provided by Dr. Yogesh to Jail officials but it was also decided to take up the matter with NHRC so that direct investigation in all the Jails located in all the States be carried out to ensure that no juvenile languish in Jails and also ensure the safety of women and health, nutrition, education and welfare of their children who are permissible in Jails. It was his intervention, that NHRC took a Suo-Moto Cognizance of the matter and issued detailed notice to all the Chief Secretaries and Administrator of the States and Union Territories to report compliance pertaining to different provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007 and Rule 12 of the Rules 2007. Dr. Yogesh had also visited Tihar Jail to review the status of juveniles in Jail.

Addressed Children’s Health Issues: Dr. Yogesh Dube achieved various milestones in the sector of children’s health with special focus on immunization, malnutrition, disability, Japanese encephalitis/acute encephalitis syndrome, child labours working in highly polluted environment, water & sanitation aspects impacting the health of the children in rural and urban sectors in many States of country.

Addressed the Issues of Children with Disabilities: It has been well established that children suffering from different kinds of disabilities are often overlooked for their needs and concerns. Dr. Yogesh Dube has frequently advocated with State Authorities, for children with disabilities including rehabilitative measures being taken, barrier free environment created at various levels, integration of these differently abled children into mainstream, provision of aids and appliances, provisions of vocational training, awareness being generated on child rights in disability sector, state wide surveys of the disabled children to set up new institutions and to develop education rehabilitation for them, various services for autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabled, provisions of home based education, and to a large extent the provisions of special educator in schools. During his most meetings with state and/or district authorities, spot recommendations were issued to all the concerned departments to comply with the needs and rights of the disabled children. He has also stressed on effective implementation of provisions under RTE, Act for children with special needs.

Interaction with other National & State Commissions: Dr. Yogesh also maintained a regular interaction with other National and State Commissions including The National Human Rights Commission, The National Commission for Women and other statutory Commissions.

Besides above, he also initiated various national level deliberations & movements including safeguarding child rights movement, homes and institutions for children in need of care and protection, streamlining the CHILDLINE functioning, catering to the energy needs through solar energy in extremely difficult terrain, proper repatriation of children at railways and enhancing Inter-ministerial cooperation towards better child rights in the country. He has been part of majority of the key Public Hearings and other state level Commissions. His concentrated efforts actually lead to the effective implementation of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) in many states.

On 23rd April 2014 made a complaint to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against Shri Raj Thackeray, President of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s threat to the life and property of North Indian migrants and his party spreading hatred for North Indian communities. (Reference various news paper clippings and press releases).

Reported to NHRC vide our reference letter dated 7th May 2014 about the plight and miseries faced by the Ponywallas, Palakiwallas, Pithus and other workers , who are rendering their services at Vaishno Devi Shrine, Jammu & Kashmir. Lack of insurance, social security scheme, education etc.

Complaint against Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Mumbai Police for forcibly removing/ evacuating the Hawkers/Street Vendors of Mumbai without implementing various directives of Supreme Court and High Court.

Farmers’ suicides in the state of Maharashtra especially in the regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada. Sought urgent intervention of NHRC with the issues to prevent suicides and to provide economic compensation, social security and complete empowerment of farmers family along with monetary support and to tackle their issues scientifically.

Pollution of River Ganga and health problems faced by local people of Uttarakhand.

Bad conditions of Roads of Sant Ravidas Nagar (Bhadohi) Uttar Pradesh.

Spreading of H1N1 (SWINE FLU) virus & shortage of Tamiflu medicine in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Spreading of H1N1 (SWINE FLU) virus & shortage of Tamiflu medicine in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Poor Power supply in village Kusauda, Suryawan, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, affecting health services, functioning of schools and public safety.

Non-availability of doctors and dysfunctioning of equipment at S.K.Patil BMC Hospital, Malad. Letter sent to Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission on 30th March 2015 and reminder on 30th May 2015 to MSHRC.

Rampant Corruption in Railway by Railway Staff & Officials including RPF,GRP and Touts & the problems faced by WR & CR passengers. Letter sent on 26th May 2015 to National Human Rights Commission for necessary course of action.

Worsening and poor medical facilities in the District of Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh Letter sent on 27th May 2015 to National Human Rights Commission.

Saving innocent lives of citizens, rising death toll and deteriorating condition of Fire Brigade officials in Maharashtra. Taken up issue with Governor of Maharashtra and Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Dismal conditions of schools in UP.

Indiscriminate poaching in Sanjay Gandhi National Park and in action of State Authorities to curb the same.

Filed a case in NHRC regarding Project Affected Persons in Mumbai who have been affected and displaced by various projects in the city.

Filed a case in MSHRC regarding Project Affected Persons in Mumbai - MEHUL

Urgent need for compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation of fire victims Slum dwellers of Damu Nagar, Kandivali East, Mumbai.

Itarsi Fire Compensation from Railways

wrote to the NHRC & MSHRC regarding the Pathetic conditions of Rickshaw walas of Varanasi, UP their upliftment and to establish Centralized system of Social Securities, life insurance, health insurance etc.

Petition for not initiating stern action / not taking preventive steps to protect Resident Doctors and other medical fraternity from attacks of family and relatives of sick/deceased patients.

Juveniles in Jail below the age of 18 years do not have proof of age called for investigation by the NHRC to ensure that no juvenile languish in jail and also ensure the safety of women and the nutrition, education and welfare of their children who are permissible in jails.

Raised the matter of persons with Disabilities with NHRC. They have forwarded the matter to the Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice, New Delhi.

Raised the issue of inhuman condition of labourers cleaning the sewerage / gutters in Maharashtra and under various other corporations in India with MSHRC and NHRC to cover this sector of labourers under Social Security Schemes, Health Insurance, right to Education, Food Security and to provide them all the benefits to live as dignified citizens in the country.

Accused prisoners in Agra Jail of Uttar Pradesh completed their term but still in prison due to non-payment of the fine amount imposed by the Honourable Court of Law.

wrote to the National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi regarding Illegal Mining and the welfare of labourers in Sonbundra.

Wrote to the UPSHRC regarding illegal mining in Sonebhadra U.P.

On 25th October 2016 took up the issue of the violation of Human Rights of the Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu & Kashmir, with the Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission and the National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi.

On 25th October 2016 took up the issue of the violation of Human Rights of the Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu & Kashmir, with the Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission and the National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi.

On 6TH February 2017 took up the issue of non-availability of Divyang friendly infrastructure in public utility buildings in Mumbai and other cities of Maharashtra.

On 27th July 2017, took up the issue of inhuman conditions in prisons in India with the NHRC.

On 24th August, took up the issue of serious violation of rights of workers in the film and television industrywith the NHRC and the MSHRC.

On 24th August, took up the issue of landslides in Mandi, Uttar Pradesh and floods in Uttar Pradesh,Bihar and Uttarkhand.

On 29th August, wrote to NHRC regarding the serious violation of rights of 19.50 lakh students in all streams due to the delay in declaration of results by Mumbai University.

On 24th April took up the issue of the major accident at the unmanned railway crossing in Bhadohi Uttar Pradesh, with the NHRC and the UPSHRC.

On 4th October wrote to the NHRC regarding gross negligence of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Airport Authority of India – to provide adequate infrastructure and other facilities to Divyangs at important airports in the country .

On 3rd November took up the issue of 63 students falling ill after eating expired biscuits in Bhadohi & 90 students hospitalised in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

wrote to NHRC regarding Urgent attention towards the human trafficking of women and children at the Indo-Nepal Border

wrote to the NHRC to protect the constitutional rights, Life and Livelihood of North Indians in Gujarat.

wrote to the NHRC regarding 70 conservancy workers to lose their jobs if they do not leave their dilapidated homes in Sion Mumbai

Cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) & Japanese Encephalitis (JE) rising in the state of Maharashtra.

Request to reopen Case No. 1219/2015 as the State government has failed to take adequate preventive measures against the spread of H1N1.

Urgent intervention to protect Child Rights in the state of Maharashtra and non- compliance of the State Government to ensure rescue and rehabilitation process of the children rescued from Bonded labour.

Request Urgent intervention to solve problem of flooding of Malad Subway Mumbai

Requested the NHRC to conduct survey/audit of all the schools / KVs in the country and (2) To protect the lives of children studying in 21 Dilapidated Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools and also students studying in dilapidated BMC schools in Mumbai

Non availability of transport and negligence by Government to inhabitants of Wadhiv village results in death while crossing Vaitarna railway bridge to get to Virar Railway Station

Violation of human rights of Shri. Gyanandra K Shukla – non-provision of proper infrastructure to Jamalpur village, Ghatampur Block, Dist. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Urgent intervention to prevent deaths /accidents on potholed roads in Maharashtra – request to issue directions to the State Government of Maharashtra and the BMC to take preventive measures immediately

Resident Doctors and other medical fraternity … attacks from family and relatives of sick/deceased patients

wrote to the NHRC regarding Non availability of sufficient hostels for MBBS Students BMC/ Government hospitals in Mumbai

Request urgent Intervention to save patients in need of Dialysis in L.T.M.G. (Sion) hospital Mumbai and adequate compensation to family of deceased patient due to negligence

Request urgent Intervention to save school children from unhygienic and contaminated food and milk served to them by school authorities in Uttar Pradesh

Hardship faced daily by students, patients, commuters and local residents as Hancock Bridge - Mumbai demolished 4 years ago still not rebuilt

Requested the MSHRC for Urgent Intervention for Independent Inquiry against the police officers involved in the custodial death of Mr. Vijay Singh.

Pathetic conditions of Coolies/Porter on Railway Stations in India

Violation of human rights of Shri Abhiram Mishra due to removal from job at Malhar Cement by Contractor Shri Pushpendra Shukla

Gross negligence of school in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) as child falls 25ft in zip-line accident

Large number of deaths and people affeced due to Corona virus. Providing basic rehabilitation, livelihood and monetary relief packages to migrant workers and workers from marginalized sections of society

Forceful possession of land belonging to Shri Shrikant Chauhan, in Thana Mardeh, Mata ji ka Pura Dist. Ghazipur, Post Bogna Gram,Uttar Pradesh

Violation of the rights of the Elderly/Senior Citizens - Attacks on Elderly in India

Violation of human rights of workers in the unorganized sector in the State of Uttar Pradesh

Deprivation of livelihood, unjust treatment and loss of dignity to Prof. Swapan Garain for creating a Whatsapp Group for the alums and members of TISSAA

Urgent intervention to modify the policies to protect the rights of the Hearing and Speech Impaired divyangs in the country - provide employment, schools, training assistance etc

Urgent intervention attention to the poor condition of Mumbai Dabbawala during Corona pandemic situation, to protect the rights under constitution of India

Urgent Intervention and action against violation of the rights of the Youth who deserve employment in the State of Maharashtra and Non-Implementation of the Skill Development Programmes.

Difficulty faced by inhabitants of village Kusauda, Post Suriwayan, Bhadohi 221 004, Uttar Pradesh, due to low capacity of the transformers

Safety of commuters at risk due to mobile phone robberies on trains on the Central, Western, Harbour and Main Lines of the Railways in Mumbai

Gross negligence of the State Governments and monitoring Municipal Corporations resulting in deaths caused due to malfunctioning of Lifts - Compensation to be paid to the family of the deceased due to negligence

Bhartiya Vikas Sansthan deprived from serving the pilgrims and the State of Uttar Pradesh due to non allotment of land for camp to assist pilgrims at the Magh Mela – Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh

SLUM FREE METROPOLITAN Urgent intervention, urgent hearing and action regarding the violation of human rights and inhuman condition of Slum dwellers in Mumbai

Urgent intervention to protect the rights of the people with disabilities/Divyangs during Covid 19

Urgent Protection of the rights of the workers who have migrated from the states like Maharashtra, Delhi, Rajasthan & Gujarat etc. to the state of Uttar Pradesh

Gross negligence of women due to underutilization of the Nirbhaya Fund

Took up the case of Large number of deaths of depositors unable to withdraw/access their money – Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank Scam – negligence of Government and RBI – request urgent intervention to protect the rights of Bank Depositors with the NHRC and the MSHRC.