(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 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 Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. Around the world growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal‚ hazardous‚ or extremely exploitative. Underage children
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Child Labor KAJA ANDON BA (Hons) Business Studies Tutor: Maria Pentila Mediterranean College 16th December 2011 Thessaloniki CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………........................................3 2. TERMINILOGY OF CHILD LABOUR-FURTHER ANALYSIS………………………………3-4 3. CAUSES OF CHILD LABOR…………………………………………………………......................4 4. SUPPORTING IDEAS OF ANOTHER VIEW ABOUT CHILD LABOR …………………4-5 5. CONCLUSION-OUR OPINION…………………………………………………………………………
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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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hild labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour.This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Childlabour was utilized to varying extents through most of history‚ but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling‚ with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution‚ and with the emergence of the concepts of workers’ and children’s rights . Seventy-three million children
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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 labor case Violation of human rights can be observed in the case of child labor of Hershey’s chocolate at the coca farms in Ghana. It helps us to understand that the problem of child labor has spread from regional concern to international issue. Is it wrong to exploit the cheap labor by children in a country that don’t have any restrictions on working children? Those child labors are often less than 14 years old and they are usually treated poorly and working in unsafe conditions that exceed
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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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wants to have children in the future? I know this question comes to you early but there are no right and wrong answers here. I‚ too‚ want to have sons and daughters in the future. I want them to enjoy all the simplest‚ craziest and funniest things a child can enjoy – for instances‚ to play‚ to learn and to sing– like I did when I was young. However‚ coming from a developing country myself‚ I know that not all children achieved these “hopes” of mine. Imagine your younger brothers and/or sisters‚ cousins
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