3. What Is "Child Labour"?
"Child labour" is work for
children that harms them or
exploits them in some way
(physically, mentally, morally,
or by blocking access to
education).
Child labour refers to the
employment of children at
regular and sustained labour.
This practice is considered
exploitative by many
international organisations
and is illegal in many
countries
4. WHY CHILD LABOUR?
“Child labour exists because we allow it to exist”
It is essentially a socio-economic problem
inextricably linked to poverty and illiteracy, it
requires concerted efforts from all sections of the
society to make a dent in the problem.
It exists because global demand for cheaply
produced goods means that suppliers have to find
the cheapest labour force possible and often times,
this means children are forced to work. Child
labour is cheap and in many cases, free.
5. CHILD LABOUR ACROSS THE WORLD:
AFRICA
The latest ILO global estimates on child labour indicate
that in Africa, progress towards the elimination of child
labour is lagging behind other regions of the world.
Millions of children are victims of the worst forms of
child labour in the region.
ARAB STATES
An estimated 13.4 million, or about 15 per cent, of all
children in the region are child labourers.
6. Asia and the Pacific
The latest ILO Global report on Child Labour found that the
number of working children under the age of 15 years in Asia
and the Pacific declined by 5 million to 122.3 million from
2000 to 2004.
Latin America and Caribbean
While child labour has declined substantially in Latin America
and the Caribbean in recent years, there are still 5.7 million
working girls and boys who are under the minimum age for
employment or are engaged in work that must be abolished
according to ILO
7. CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA:
India accounts for the second
highest number where child labour
in the world is concerned. The fact
is that across the length and
breadth of the nation, children are
in a pathetic condition.
While experts blame the system,
poverty, illiteracy, adult
unemployment; yet the fact is that
the entire nation is responsible for
every crime against a child. Instead
of nipping the problem at the bud,
child labour in India was allowed to
increase with each passing year
8. LABOUR ACTIVITIES IN INDIA
Child Labour in The
Agricultural Sector :
According to a recent ILO
report about 80% child
labourers in India are
employed in the agriculture
sector. The children are
generally sold to the rich
moneylenders to whom
borrowed money cannot be
returned.
9. OTHER SECTORS ENCOURAGING
CHILD LABOUR:
Glass Factories
Matchbox Factories
Carpet Industry
Construction Sites
Hotels
Making Of Crackers
Garages
As servants/maids
10. RIGHTS OF A CHILD
The Right To Survival - to
life, health, nutrition, name
and nationality
The Right To Development -
to
education, care, leisure, recrea
tion
The Right To Protection -
from
exploitation, abuse, neglect
The Right To Participation -
to
expression, information, thou
ght and religion
11. GOVERNMENT POLICIES
. Article 24 of the Indian constitution clearly states that
"No child below the age of fourteen years shall be
employed to work in any factory or mine or employed in
any hazardous employment.” Article 39 (e) directs State
policy such "that the health and strength of workers . . .
and the tender age of children are not abused and that
citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter
avocations unsuited to their age or strength.”
Although the lack of data does not mean enforcement is
nonexistent, the number of child labourers and their work
participation rates show that enforcement, if existent, is
ineffective.
12. Govt. of India should take the following
steps immediately to stop child labour:
1. It should launch an awareness campaign amongst
poorest of the poor as well as other people that producing
more children does not mean necessarily more working
hands but it also means more mouths to feed. In fact, it
should take stringent measures for population control.
2. It should inform the poor people that their children
should be sent to school and that Mid-day meal
programmes are there to feed them. It should tell them
about the right to education law.
3. It should launch an awareness campaign that people
should not engage small children as domestic help.
4. It must take action against the officials who do not
enforce the laws regarding child labour. This is a must.
Even when laws or codes of conduct exist, they are often
violated.
13. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO)
The new ILO global report,
entitled Accelerating action
against child labour, presents
detailed estimates. Progress was
greatest among children aged 5-
14, where the number of child
laborers fell by 10 per cent. Child
labour among girls decreased by
15 per cent. However, it
increased among boys (by 8
million or 7 per cent). What’s
more, child labour among young
people aged 15 to 17 increased by
20 per cent, from 52 million to
62 million
14. RED CARD – “GO FOR THE GOAL”
Red Card" takes place
during international
football competitions to
inform the public on child
labour issues with the aim
of fostering the emergence
of a world movement in
favour of the elimination of
this plague: 218 million
children worldwide are
at work, among them 126
million are intolerably
exploited
16. What we should do?
We can educate our servant’s children and stop them from
working.
We can spread awareness among the various backward areas
through campaigns.
We can explain the importance of education among the poor
people.
We can form a group to protect the children & stop child
labour.
17. CONCLUSION
“This is our right ,adults have to listen. This
is children's rights. And if they are not
abiding with that right, we will work
harder to make them hear.”
“If not we ,then who?
If not now ,then when?”
