Child labour is a major problem in India. It is a great challenge that the country is facing. The prevalence of it is evident by the child work participation rates which are higher in India than in other developing countries. Estimates cite figures of child labour between 60 and 115 million working children in India‚ the highest number in the world (Human Rights Watch‚ 1996). It is basically rooted in poverty. It is poverty that forces a child to earn money to support his family. Though
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CHILD LABOUR “The child is the father of man”. This famous line quoted by William Wordsworth refers to the importance of the child for the development of society as well as for the all round development of human race. Childhood is the time to garner the best physical‚ (ADJECTIVE) intellectual (ADJECTIVE) and emotional (ADJECTIVE) capacity to fulfill this duty towards the nation and to one’s own self. However‚ this simple rule of nature has been crippled by the ever growing menace of child
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Child Labour Many people around the world think that child labour is something that only happened in the pass.These people are mistaken. They would be astonished if they actually knew the true figures of children that suffer and are exploited daily by people who make the work outrageous hours for hardly any reward. Around about 246 million children are enforced in child labour. Many of these helpless children not only have to deal with the amount of work that has been given to them by their
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THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT‚ 1986 (ACT NO. 61 OF 1986) [23rd December‚ 1986.] An Act to prohibit the engagement of children in certain employments and to regulate the conditions of work of children in certain other employments. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -- PART I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title‚ extent and commencement. -- (1) This Act may be called the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act‚ 1986
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their normal childhood like us. They cannot go to school or play with their friends like we do. They are denied opportunities for growth‚ development‚ learning etc. They are subjected to hard labour with meager wages. What is the reason for this? Poverty!‚ yes poverty is the main reason for Child Labour in India and in many developing countries. Children have to work all through the day and many times during night to feed themselves and to support their family. Most parents of these children are illiterate
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Child Labor One day my mom asked me‚ “Aishwarya‚ can you make a cup of tea for me?” I thought for a while and told her that Do you think I am a child labor whom you can exploit like this? She felt uneasy at my rude behaviour. I was expecting a reply from her But without saying even a single word she got up and made the tea herself. The reply came finally after few months when we were on vacation in India. Good evening judges and gavelliers‚ On a Sunday morning my mum took me out‚
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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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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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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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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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