2. CHILD POVERTY
& CHILD LABOUR
POVERTY IN INDIA IS WIDESPREAD
* THE NATION ESTIMATED TO HAVE A THIRD OF THE WORLD POOR IN 2010
* THE WORLD BANK REPORTED THAT 32.7% OF THE TOTAL INDIAN PEPOLE
FALL BELOW INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
* CHILD POVERTY REMAINS A REALITY IN INDIA CHILDREN LIVE WITH ADULTS AND
DEPEND PRINCIPALLY ON THOSE ADULTS FOR WELL BIENG.
*CHILDEREN ARE POOR IN LARGE PART BECOZ THEY LIVE WITH ADULTS
WHO ARE POOR SO THAT UNDERSTANDING CHILD POVRTY REQUIRES
SOME UNDERSTANDING ADULT POVERTY,WHICH IS LARGELY DETERMINED
BY ADULT EARNING

4. Child labor persists even though laws and standards to eliminate it exist. Current causes of global child
labor are similar to its causes in the U.S. 100 years ago, including poverty, limited access to education,
repression of workers’ rights, and limited prohibitions on child labor.

5. Child labor involves at least one of the following characteristics:
 Violates a nation’s minimum age laws
 Threatens children’s physical, mental, or emotional well-being
 Involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage,
forced labor, or illicit activities
 Prevents children from going to school
 Uses children to undermine labor standards

7. CHILD LABOUR
 Poverty and economic shocks clearly play an important if
not a key role in determining the market for child labour.
Child labour in turn contributes to the perpetuation of
poverty. For example, recent empirical findings by the
World Bank from Brazil demonstrate that early entry into
the labour force reduces lifetime earnings by some 13 to 20
per cent, increasing significantly the probability of being
poor later in life.
 However, poverty in itself is not a sufficient explanation of
child labour, and it certainly fails to explain some of the
unconditional worst forms of child labour.

9. HUMAN RIGHTS
 A human rights perspective is
necessary for a fuller
understanding of child labour,
as it focuses on discrimination
and exclusion as contributing
factors. The most vulnerable
groups when it comes to child
labour are often those subject
to discrimination and exclusion:
girls, ethnic minorities and
indigenous and tribal peoples,
those of low class or caste,

11. why Does Child Labour Happen?????
Child labour happens because children are more easily
employed due to the fact that they can be paid less than
adults, and because they are more docile and easier to
exploit. The vice continues because parent themselves
send the kids to work and not to school.

12. HOW DO WE COMBAT CHILD LABOUR
 Child labour is a complicated issue which can not
be solved through legislation alone. In fact forced
legislation can move children out of monitor able
forms of child labour into more hidden and
hazardous employmBut as individuals, what can
we do to help put an end to child labour
throughout the world

13. All child labour is unacceptable
 The Convention on the Rights of the Child along with a
host of other international agreements unequivocally
affirm the right of all children to live in freedom from
exploitation

The Stop Child Labour campaign believes that such
distinctions, while helping to cast a spotlight on the worst
abuses, tend to be too narrow in their focus and offer only
partial solutions. Efforts to eliminate child labour should
focus on all its forms, preferably aiming at all children in a
certain com