Child Labour Child labour is called as work done by those small children who are yet under-aged as per by law. By ‘Work Done’‚ we mean that work which is done by the under-aged children in factories or showrooms or any other place to earn money to sustain their livelihood or of their families. CHILD is a word that is used for very young persons; an age to study‚ play‚ enjoy and have very big dreams in small eyes. But does all children enjoy in this small age? Do you really think that all the
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(United Nations Children’s Fund) defines child labor as “work that exceeds a minimum number of hours‚ depending on the age of a child and on the type of work.” According to UNICEF‚ 158 million children‚ ages ranging from 5 to 14‚ are engaged in child labor. Many face life-threatening jobs‚ such as coal mining‚ metalwork‚ and other work that involve contact with pesticides‚ highly toxic chemicals‚ and sexually transmitted diseases. International Labour Organisation (ILO) states that‚ “the total
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CHILD LABOUR The term “child labour” is often used interchangeably with “working child” or “employed child”. While all these terms are defined on the basis of age of the person working. According to the Constitution of India‚ child labourer may be defined as a person who is below the age of 14 years and is working for an earning. However‚ child labour denies children the opportunities for mental and physical development and consequently their life chances are marred. Children engaged in domestic
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Child Labour Defination Wordsworth has said: “The child is father or the man.” Children are our future. Now when they are so important‚ we must realize what are doing for them. Have we succeeded in providing them the basic necessities of life such as education and health care? Although the government NGOs and other organizations are busy in solving the problem of child labour yet nothing seems to have come out of their work. Poverty is the main case of this failure. The poor parents are
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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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Child Labour What is it? Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood‚ interferes with their ability to attend regular school‚ and that is mentally‚ physically‚ socially‚ it is dangerous and harmful.[ When did it start? In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s‚ powerdriven machines replaced hand labour for the making of most manufactured items. Factories began to spring up everywhere‚ first in England and then in the United States. The owners
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legal duty". and compulsory primary education is the policy instrument by which the sates effectively removed children from the work force. in India‚ child labour persists on a significant scale.Child labour is neither illegal nor is schooling compulsory.child labour usually refers to children up to the age of 14‚ following the ILO(international labour organisation) convention. It resolution on age of the employment‚concerning age for admission to the employment and that is 18. the occupations specified
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CHILD LABOUR What is child labor? Children working under age of 5-14‚ are known as child laborers. This social evil is continuously going on strengthening its roots in our society. Can we eliminate child labor? Though it is a desirable goal the fact remains that in the given socio-economic scenario that is prevalent in our country‚ it is virtually impossible to do away with child labor. One cannot dispute the fact that employers exploit children by paying them much less than what they would pay
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children upto 14yrs in the workforce is 12626505 = 12.62 millions = child labour in 2001 (graph) 11% of the workforce of india is child labour. One in every 10 workers in India is a child! If you allocate a tenth of India’s GDP to this share you can see India’s Child Labour has a stake in India’s GDP POINTS TO PONDER: 1) In practice‚ however‚ the poverty argument does not hold water. Precisely the opposite is true: child labor maintains poverty. Because children are easy to exploit and are
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teachers and dear friends‚ my objective today is to talk about the social evil of child labour in our country. Child labor in India is a human right issue for the whole world. It is a serious and extensive problem‚ with many children under the age of fourteen working in carpet making factories‚ glass blowing units and making fireworks. According to the statistics given by Indian government there are 20 million child laborers in the country‚ while other agencies claim that it is 50 million. In Northern
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