ELIMINATING CHILD LABOUR: DO NGO INTERVENTIONS ADD UP TO A STRATEGY? Rekha Wazir* The involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in child labour is fairly recent but it is steadily growing in momentum. However‚ only a few NGOs have succeeded in achieving recognition in this field at the national level. This paper starts by reviewing a number of inter-linked background factors that circumscribe and curtail the activities of NGOs. This is followed by an analysis of the strategies
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Primary causes International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labour.[14] For impoverished households‚ income from a child’s work is usually crucial for his or her own survival or for that of the household. Income from working children‚ even if small‚ may be between 25 to 40% of these household income. Other scholars such as Harsch on African child labour‚ and Edmonds and Pavcnik on global child labour have reached the same conclusion.[13][52][53]
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(Published in International Journal of Technical Cooperation‚ 4 (1)‚ Summer‚ 1998) CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH Nasim Banu‚ Shahjahan Bhuiyan‚ Islamic University‚ Kushtia and Smita Sabhlok‚ University of Southern California In an increasingly integrated world‚ people feel more intimately connected with communities and processes in distant lands. Today the world seems to have high expectations and aspirations for its children‚ certainly higher than seeing them break bricks or straining their
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<center><b>Our Efforts and Experiences Part - I</b></center> <br> <br>"In all the civilized societies all over the world system of child labour is condemned as a social evil but the fact is the system is prevelent on a large scale in a country like India. It is noticed that‚ in recent times our society is showing some signs of awareness about this social evil. This is the first part of the article giving details about the efforts undertaken in and around Ahmedpur for eradication of this system
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CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR • Poverty • Parental illiteracy • Tradition of making children learn the family skills • Absence of universal compulsory Primary education • Social apathy and tolerance of child labour • Ignorance of the parents about the adverse consequences of Child labour • Ineffective enforcement of the legal provisions pertaining to child labour • Non-availability of and non-accessibility to schools • Irrelevant and non-attractive school curriculum • Employers prefer children as they constitute
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Child labour Introduction Throughout the world‚ especially in the less-developed countries‚ an immeasurable amount of children have been involved in what has been called child labour‚ and its prevalence has now sparked much worry. Child labour can be defined as any work that is harmful to a child’s health or interrupt a child’s education (International Labour Organisation‚ 2012). According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO)‚ there were approximately 153 million child labourers aged
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Child Labor – A Challenge the World is Facing Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life. It is that phase of life where a child is free from all the tensions‚ fun-loving‚ play and learns new things‚ and is the sweetheart of all the family members. But this is only one side of the story. The other side is full of tensions and burdens. Here‚ the innocent child is not the sweetheart of the family members‚ instead he is an earning machine working the entire day in order to satisfy the needs
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Abstract The primary objective of this essay is to investigate what has caused child labour to become a glaring issue in our society until the present day and look at possible solutions. A lot has been done but little achieved in this ongoing fight. Many international organisations such as ILO and UNICEF are deeply concerned by rising child labour in Afghanistan‚ Pakistan and India to name but a few. Children work for many reasons‚ the most important being poverty and the pressure suffered
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ETHIC AND SOCIETY CHILD LABOUR Name: Tammy (Nhan) Mai Instructor: Chris Barrett Date: December 7‚ 2010 Introduction According to internationally accepted rules‚ regulations‚ laws‚ morality‚ and ethics‚ child labour is unacceptable‚ and child labour should be not legalized. This paper records the results of research on child labour issues in newly industrialized nations and third-world countries‚ and discusses how companies currently make use of child labour. Child labour is unacceptable because
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CHILD LABOUR Introduction According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) a new generation of children is being deprived of the chance to take their rightful place in the society and economy of the 21st Century. The ILO has proposed that ‘child labour’ will disappear in a decade. If this happens well and good. But in reality the situation is worsening. One in eight children in the world is exposed to the worst forms of child labour which endanger children’s physical‚ mental health
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