1. CHILD LABOR
A socially accepted crime

2. Presented by
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Jahangir Khalil
Zia ur Rehman
Mubashir Yasin
Hafiz Faraz Iqbal
Shamroz Ali
(CIIT/BCS-FA12-006)
(CIIT/BCS-FA12-021)
(CIIT/BCS-FA12-023)
(CIIT/BCS-FA12-043)
(CIIT/BCS-FA12-070)

3. What is Child Labor ?
Child Labor means the work for the children that harms
them or exploits them in some way e.g.
 Physically
 Mentally
 Morally

4.  Chemicals and pollutant
environment in industries
messed up children growth.
 Most children aren’t old enough
to handle certain jobs.
 In manufacturing units children
suffered from different diseases.
Physical Effects

5.  In one engine repair factory the
lead levels were so above the
safety limits, that red cells were
mutated. This has a huge effect
on a child’s mental
development.
Mental Effects

6. Laik Khanzada, nine-year-old trainee motor
mechanic
“I used to go to school but
then left because we had no fee to
pay,”
He wishes to be an officer if he gets a
chance to study.
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Out of 100 child laborers 42% never gone to
school and 58% dropped out.
Moral Effects

7. Child Labor in Pakistan
 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated in the 1990s
that 11 million children were working in the country, half of those
under the age of ten.
 It was estimated that one quarter of the country’s work force was
made up of child laborers.

8. Causes of Child Labor
 30% of our country’s total population is leading life below the
poverty-line .The Children of poor families are forced to become
Laborers' or workers in order to survive.
 In rural areas people are not aware of the importance of
education. Class-based education system is also a reason for
increase in Child Labor.
 The government has not put its laws into practice to stop child
Labor in our country that’s why child labor is increasing day by
day.

9. Types of Child Labor
 Agriculture
 Mixing Pesticides
 Carpet Weaving
 Deep Fishing
 Soccer Balls
 Glass Factory
 Automobile Workshops
 Hotel work
 Mining
 Textile Work
 Stone/Marble Cutting
 Street Work
and much more…

10. Agriculture
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High rates of injuries while
working with knives, sharp
tools, and other heavy
equipment.
An estimated 100,000
children suffer from
agriculture-related injuries in
Pakistan annually.

11. Carpet Weaving
 Most popular export from
Pakistan.
 Somewhere between 500,0001 million Pakistani children
work as full- time carpet
weavers.
 Muscular deformities and
respiratory infections from the
fibers and chemicals.
 Injuries from to sharp
instruments and body aches.

12. Soccer Balls Industry
 About half the world’s soccer
balls are made in Pakistan.
 35 million Soccer Balls are
made in Pakistan, and children
make a quarter of them.

13. Automobile workshops
 In one automobile workshop of 150 working children, 120 of them
worked from 8-10 hours without any safety measures. It's an unsafe,
polluted environments. Children suffered from headaches, nasal
irritations, sore throats and skin rashes.

15. What's being done to stop Child Labor ?
 Organization/Activists Efforts
 Pakistan’s Efforts

16. Organization and Activists efforts
 The NGO groups working against
child labor in Pakistan are:
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Bonded Labor Liberation Front
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry
UNICEF
Save the Children
SPARC
 The Bonded Labor Liberation
Front is probably the most
successful in Pakistan.

17. NGO groups against child labor
 The International Labor
Organization (ILO) plans to
end the worst form of child
labor by 2016.
 The ILO, UNICEF, Save the
Children, and the Sialkot
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry signed the Partners'
Agreement to eliminate Child
Labor in the Soccer Industry
in Pakistan on February 14,
1997, in Atlanta, Georgia.

18.  Pakistan Efforts
 Factories Act, 1934
 West Pakistan Shops and Establishment Ordinance
 The Employee Children Act, 1991
 The Bonded Labor System Abolition Act, 1992
 The Punjab Compulsory Education Act 1994
 In September 1988, the "peshgi" (bonded) system was abolished.
 The government gave free books to primary schools so parents with
limited budgets are now able to send their children to schools.

19.  Pakistan Efforts-Nothing is done by Government
 NO laws are enforced.
 Since 2001 the United States has given more than $15
billion to Pakistan, which went almost entirely to military
spending.
 The Pakistan Parliament is a part of the elite, so they pay no
taxes and don’t want to make any changes to the system.

20. CONCLUSION
 The children are working as a labor in school going age for the
survival of there families and to full fill the basic necessities.
 People don’t know the importance of education. That’s why
most of children remain illiterate.
 Child Labor Laws should be strictly put into practice.
 Awareness must be raised to stop child labor.

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