ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR Definition of child labour: Child labour is the work performed by a child that is likely to be harmful to their health or physical‚ mental‚ spiritual‚ moral or social development. Facts about child labour: According to the definition of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)‚ there are about 218 million child labourers in the world today of course no one likes the fact that children work and do not go to school. But despite the facts that child labour is considered
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The military use of young children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers)‚ or they can be used in support roles such as porters‚ spies‚ messengers‚ look outs‚ and sexual slaves; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Throughout history and in many cultures‚ children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were supposedly against cultural morals. Since the 1970s
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Child Labour Should Be Banned By fiona_jones Jan. 2007 790 Words 70 Views Page 1 of 3 For many of us it is hard to imagine what it would be like growing up‚ having to work from the age of five and not being able to go to school. ’Child Labour’ is defined by the United States Department of Labour (DOL) as ’the employment of boys and girls when they are too young to work for hire; or when they are employed at jobs unsuitable or unsafe for children of their ages’ It is not something we are too familiar
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Historically‚ child labor has allowed countries to build up a strong‚ safe place for it’s citizens‚ but we forget that it has taken the lives of many innocent children. These children come to work every day‚ working over 14 hours‚ only to make about 30¢ an hour. As much as they might work‚ sometimes we don’t see how much these factories can support the economy and well being of a country until years after we suffer the consequences. The choice the United States must make‚ determines what the U
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Child labour is a very big problem in today’s world. Many organizations work towards diminishing it however‚ it is a very touchy problem and needs to be handled with caution as the process is very tedious which is not realized by many people worldwide. Many think that diminishing child labour suddenly and as soon as possible is going to be good for the world however‚ this is not true. The fight to end child labour is going to be long and hard because of the many negative impacts it will have on the
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Poverty in the Victorian Era. Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution‚ children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous‚ and often fatal‚ working conditions. Based on this understanding of the use of children as laborers‚ it is now considered by wealthy countries to be a human rights violation‚ and is outlawed‚ while some poorer countries may allow or tolerate child labour. Child labour can also be defined as the full-time employment of children who are under
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Can you imagine a world where you have to work when you’re only 5 years old? No? Well there’s a lot of children who have to work at this age and sometimes younger. Child labor is a serious issues that still occurs in today’s society. Children are working for less than a dollar an hour for five days a week. While working children are not going to school and getting the education they require as they grow older‚ and many are having trouble dealing with the trauma from the punishments they’re receiving
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Child Malnutrition in Darbhanga District North East India Introduction India has the highest prevalence of underweight and malnourished children in the world and is almost double of the Sub-Saharan Africa. One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India (World Health Organisation‚ 2008). Indian National Family Healthy Survey reports that‚ 48% of children under the age of three are malnourished and 19.8% suffered from acute malnutrition (IIPS‚ 2006). There are many inequalities
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One of the social problems in India is child labor. Children and youngsters are preferred for some jobs as helpers in some factories and offices. They bring water in buckets or bricks for construction work. They are sent to various shops to supply tea or coffee by a coffee-shop owner. They sell toys in busy localities for a commission. They are employed in some factories to clean cars. In Savakis hundreds of boys and girls are employed in factories which manufacture firecrackers and various kinds
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Child Malnutrition and Mortality : Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for a two-thirds reduction in the mortality rate among children under age five between 1990 and 2015. Accurate and timely estimates of under-five mortality are needed to help countries set priorities‚ design programmes to reduce mortality‚ and monitor progress towards the MDG4. Developing these estimates poses a considerable challenge because of the limited data available
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