Child labor is a significant problem in Pakistan, with over 3.8 million children aged 5-14 working. It negatively impacts children's health, education, and development. Common forms of child labor in Pakistan include carpet weaving, soccer ball stitching, automobile workshops, and agriculture. Children face injuries, lung diseases, stunted growth, and mental impacts from unsafe and exploitative working conditions. While Pakistan has enacted some laws against the worst forms of child labor, enforcement is lacking and millions of children remain out of school. International organizations and activists are working to raise awareness and end child labor, but face challenges from a lack of political will.

1. Presentation By :
Asma Sattar
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2. Introduction:
 Today Pakistan is facing a lot of
social problems
but some are very common in
Pakistan, which
are destroying our society and also
economy of
Pakistan.
 Child labor is a global issue.
 Child labor is one of the most
common problems in Asia and also
in Pakistan
 Child labor is not only a social
problem but also an economic one

3. Unicef Definitions
United Nations International Children's Emergency
Fund(UNICEF define child labor as
 Child Labor is some type of work performed by
Children below age “18”
 Children working before they reached the lawful
minimum age for Employment in the country

4. Child Labor is work for
children that harms them or
exploits them in some way
e.g.
 Physically
 Mentally
 morally or blocking access
to education

5. Kinds of Child Labor
“worst form”-work that is very difficult and harmful to a
child's physical development.
“ReferIng form”-no matter what the circumstances are,
no matter how much is paid or how little the child does, it
is illegal even for adults.

7. WORST FORMS OF CHILD
LABOUR

8. ● Forms of slavery, servitude and forced labor
● Commercial sexual exploitation
● illicit activities;
● Hazardous work that damages the lives,
health or morals of those involved.

9. PREFERRING CHILD
LABOUR ……!!!
 CHEAP
 OBEDIENT
 EASY TO THREATEN
 NIMBLE FINGERS

11. COMPARISON

12. Way of Sleeping

13. Way of Working

14. Way of Eating

15. Way of enjoyment

16. • Poverty
• Lack of recourses
• Unemployment
• Illiteracy
• Urbanization
• Over Population
•Minority Group
•Economic Shock

18. The Different Types of Child Labor
Agriculture
Carpet Weaving
Soccer Balls
Automobile Workshops
Mining
Stone/ marble cutting
Mixing Pesticides
Deep fishing
Glass factory
Hotel work/ Textile
factory Work
Street work
And much more

19. Some minor child labor sectors

20. Carpet Weaving
• Most popular export from Pakistan
• Somewhere between 500,000- 1 million Pakistani children
work as full- time carpet weavers

21. Carpet Weaving effects
Muscular deformities and
respiratory infections from
the fibers and chemicals
 Injuries from to sharp
instruments and body aches
 They strain their eyes and the
children also develop spinal
deformities
 Callused and scarred hands,
gnarled fingers, struggled
breathing as a result of
tuberculosis.
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22. Soccer Balls
 Nike and the soccer ball industry in Pakistan
 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

23. Automobile Workshops
In one automobile workshop of 150 working children,
120 of them worked from 8-10 hours without any safety
measures

24. Problems of
child labor

25. How The Children Are Affected
“Every year 22,000 children
die from accidents related to their
work”-
 Don’t Understand ( Believe it
is a normal part of growing
up)
 Uneducated
 Mental affects
 Physical Affects

26. Common diseases
• Growth deficiency
• physical injuries
• Sexually transmitted
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•
•
diseases
Exhaustion and
malnutrition
lung diseases
Insomnia
Aggression

27. Uneducated
 Education receives around 3%
of the total gross domestic
product and the military gets
10 times that
 42% if child laborers have
never gone to school and 58%
dropped out
 But now the literacy rate
increases in Pakistan compare
to last 20year literacy rate

28. Mental Effects
 mentally and emotially
mature too fast
 Early aging effect
 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.

29. Physical Effects
• In the automobile
industry it’s an unsafe,
polluted environments
• Some chemicals have
messed up their growth
• Most children aren’t old
enough to handle certain
jobs
• In manufacturing units
children suffered from
headaches, nasal
irritations, sore throats
and skin rashes

30. Agriculture Physical Affects
 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

31. Punishment Physical Affects
• Children are hung
upside down by their
knees, starved, caned, or
lashed
• Beaten children are
rarely allowed to return
home, if the children try
to escape they are
forcibly returned to
factories with the help of
the local police

33. •Out of the 3.8 million economically active
workers, 2.7 million were claimed to be Children
•50% of the economically active children are in age
group of 5 to 9 years
•3.8 million children of age group 5 to 14 years is
working in Pakistan

34. .
Child Labor Fact
Sheet
 buffaloes cost Vs. child cost
 47 out of 100 children enrolled in class I reach class VIII,
putting the dropout rate at 52.79%.
 42 million children in the age-group 6-14 years do not
attend school in Pakistan
 Approximately 16.64% of villages in the country do not
have facilities for primary schooling.

36. What’s Being Done to Stop Child
Labor
• Pakistan's Efforts
• Organization/Activists Efforts

37. Pakistan’s Efforts
Policies and acts
 Factories Act, 1934
 West Pakistan Shops and
Establishment Ordinance
 The Employee Children Act, 1991
 The Bonded Labor System
Abolition Act, 1992
 Punjab Compulsory Education
Act 1994

38.  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

39. Organizations & Activists
• The International Labor
Organization (ILO) plans
to end the worst form of
child labor by 2016
• ILO and the Provincial
Labor Department, are
working to organize a
speech competition, an
exhibition of paintings, a
magic show for kids, and a
street walk to raise
awareness

40.  The June, 1996 issue of Life
magazine carried an article
about child labor in
Pakistan
 Activists can be slandered,
harassed by police,beaten,
and sometimes killed
 The Bonded Labor
Liberation Front is
probably the most
successful in Pakistan

41. • 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

42. Celebrated on 20th November
since 1959.
REASON:
to provide the rights of children to them without any
exploitation of children rights.

44. •Child labors are the economy
runners of our country
•They should be given their due
rights
•Education and work should go
side by side with proper balance