This document discusses child labour around the world. It estimates that 215 million children between ages 5-17 are currently involved in child labour. Many work in agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service due to poverty and lack of access to education. Child labour is defined as work that is unacceptable because children should be in school or the work is unsuitable for those under 18. The document also discusses key international regulations that prohibit child labour such as ILO Convention 138 on minimum working age and Convention 182 on worst forms of child labour.

1. Child Labour
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The key international regulations governing the
prohibition of child labour

2. Definition of Child Labour
Around the world growing
gaps between rich and poor in recent
decades have forced millions of young
children out of school and into work.
The International Labor
Organization estimates that 215 million
children between the ages of 5 and 17
currently involve in Child Labour
Underage children work at all sorts of
jobs around the world, usually because
they and their families are extremely
poor. Large numbers of children work in
commercial agriculture, fishing,
manufacturing, mining, and domestic
service.
Some children work in illicit
activities like the drug trade and
prostitution or other traumatic activities
such as serving as soldiers.
Child labour is work that is
unacceptable because the children
involved are too young and should be
in school, or because even though they
have attained the minimum age for
admission to employment, the work
that they do is unsuitable for a person
below the age of 18.

3. Where does most child labour occur?
Source: University of Iowa ‘What is child labour’
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html

4. The causes of child of labour
•Poverty and unemployment levels are high
•Access to compulsory, free education is limited.
•Laws and enforcement are often inadequate.

5. -Children’s Rights Alliance , ‘Un Convention on the Rights of the child’ [2010]
[http://www.crae.org.uk/rights/uncrc.html]accessed 6 November 2010
-International Labour Organization , ‘Child labour ’ [1996-2010]
[http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/InternationalLabourStandards/Subjects/Childlabour/lang--
en/index.htm]accessed 4 November 2010
The ILO Minimum Age Convention No. 138

6. • G Herath and K Sharma , Child Labour in South Asia , Ashgate Publishing Limited , Hampshire , 2007) 20
• U.S.department of labor , The Department of Labor’s 2001 finding on the worst forms of child labor : Trade and Dwevelopment
Act of 2000 , U.S.A. , 2001 )10
The Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention No.182
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

7. International Labour Organization , ‘Child labour by sector’ [1996-2010]
[http://www.ilo.org/ipec/SupplementalNavigation/Contactus/lang--en/index.htm]accessed 4 November 2010
International Labour Organization , ‘New ILO global report on child labour as effort to end child labour slow , ILO called for
“re-energized” global action ’ [1996-2010]
[http://www.ilo.org/asia/info/public/pr/lang--en/WCMS_126897/index.htm]accessed 4 November 2010