Child labour is a serious problem in Pakistan, with around 3.8 million children aged 5-14 working according to a recent survey. Common forms of child labour in Pakistan include working in agriculture, mining, manufacturing such as carpet weaving, and domestic work such as shoe shining. Child labour results in negative consequences for children's health, education, and development. While the Pakistani constitution and laws prohibit child labour, poverty and lack of access to education continue to drive the problem. NGOs and international organizations are working with the government to raise awareness, provide education opportunities, and advocate for stronger policies to eliminate child labour.

2. Child labour is a serious crime all
over the world.
Child Labour is the employment of
children for work below the age of
18.
Child Labour is the work for
children that harms them or
exploits them in some way
(physically, mentally, morally or
blocking access to education).
Child labour
Cruelty or necessity?

3. Child
Labour
Over
Populatio
n
Poverty
Market
Deman
d
Barrier
s to
educati
on

4. Detailed causes:
• Due to unawareness, illiterate
parents do not send their
children to school.
• Children at a young age are
summoned to “help” other
family members to earn a
living due to extreme poverty!
• Many a time poverty forces
parents to send their
children to hazardous jobs

5. •Children, with no parents
and relatives, often do not
find anyone to support
them. Thus they are
forced to work for their
own living.
• Employers prefer to hire
children because they are
cheaper than their male
counterparts.

6. Agricultural labour
Mining
Manufacturing Industries
(carpet-weaving, sports good)
shoe-shining
According to the last year’s survey of
Federal Bureau of Investigation out of
total 40 million children in the 5-14 age
bracket, 3.8 million are working in Pakistan.
Forms of Child Labour in
Pakistan

7. Working at auto repair shop
Cleaning cars
begging
selling small objects,

8. C
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Q
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Psychological damage resulting
from violence and abuse.
Children prone to illness, injury
and even death due to
machinery, biological, chemical
and physical hazards
Growth deficiency
Malnutrition is the common
result of this heavy work.

9. Emotional neglect such as
deprivation of family love and
affection, resulting in loneliness,
and hopelessness.
Denied the right to a quality
education, as adults they have
little chance of obtaining a
decent job.
Since these children don't receive
any education, it increases illiteracy,
hampering the overall economic
growth of the country

10. Efforts to reduce Child Labour

11. Government policies on Child Labour
•Article 3: the state shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual
fulfillment of fundamental principle, from each according to his ability and to each according to
his work.
•Article 11(3): No child below the age of 14 years shall be engaged in any factory or mine or any
other hazardous employment.
•Article 25(A): The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of
five to sixteen years in such manner as determined by law.
•Article 37(e): The state shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work,
ensuring that women and children are not employed in vacations unsuited to their age or sex.
The Constitution of Pakistan contains a range of provisions with regards to labour
rights found in Part II: Fundamental Rights and Principles of Policy.

12. Efforts of NGO’s
• SPARC :
SPARC is a NGO which has conducted
research that goes into producing its
publications, including three major
books on child labor, juvenile justice
and child rights.
•Azad Foundation
Azad Foundation exists to help street
children in grave circumstances. It aims
to provide protection and rehabilitation
to children who are in conditions of
need.

13. • Child Care Foundation of Pakistan (CCF)
CCF is a non-profit, non governmental organization set up in
October 1996, under the Societies Act 1860 with public-
private partnership for charitable and education purposes.
Other NGOs that has worked on the issue of child labor in
Pakistan includes organization such as :
 UNICEF
 NCCWD
 ROZAN

14. • People don’t know the importance
of education. That’s why most of
children remain illiterate.
Awareness must be raised and
parents should pay attention to the
education of their children.
•Moreover The State shall
provide free and compulsory
education to all children of the age
of five to 16 years in such manner
as may be determined by law.

17. “When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
could scarcely cry
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I
sleep.”

18. Children are
remarkably
imaginative
and resilient–
but also
heartbreaking
ly fragile and
vulnerable.
“SO LET US SHARE
THEIR DREAMS
AND SHAPE THEIR
FUTURE .”

19. Our aim is to equate all
CHILDREN