Child Labour Is A Pan India Social Evil

When their work do not affect their “health and personal development or interfere with their schooling,” they do not fit the negative notion of child labor (ILO, 1996). Children sometimes assist their parents with housework and take a part in building family businesses without their working hours affecting primary education. This is indeed a beneficial experience for children, because they learn to be productive within their communities. On the other hand, ILO (1996) applies the term child labor when work “is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and interferes with their schooling by; depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.” When child labor is engaged in enslavement, separation from families, and misplacement of children on the streets, ILO experts refer to it as the most extreme forms of child

Years passed and child labor is still one of the biggest issue worldwide, children at the age of 6-14 have the rights to go to school and get good education but instead they are kept in work places doing hazardous jobs, meanwhile, while the population of children’s working is increasing at the same time the population of unemployed adults is increasing, children’s are the hopes of the future they are the one who can get changes in our world.

“The International Labor Organization estimates that at least 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working, mostly in the developing world.” Many Americans view child labor as wrong or dangerous, but they do not realize how essential child labor can be in developing countries. In the article “Regulated Child Labor Is Necessary in Developing Countries,” by John Tierney, a current author for the New York Times, focuses on child labor and why it is essential in some developing countries. Tierney creates a sympathetic tone for the readers to try and understand the struggles regarding child labor in developing countries.

Child Labor is not an isolated problem. The phenomenon of child labor is an effect of economic discrimination. In different parts of the world, at different stages of histories, laboring of child has been a part of economic life. More than 200 million children worldwide, some are as young as 4 and 5

This shows that 13% of children are not receiving an education and that a lot of countries still using child labor. Also, children faces health and safety risk because they are working in dirty environments. Also, children lift heavy equipments that they have to use in order to work and children aren’t strong enough to be carrying heavy equipments.

However small amount the children are paid, helps support their family. The children in this labor force typically come from impoverished households, and in undeveloped countries. Often times parents have no choice but to push their children into child labor, as they cannot meet basic needs without this extra income. “1 out of every 6 children work mainly in South Asia and South-Saharan Africa,” which are also the poorest regions in the world. Putting children to work can be a necessity in order for their family’s survival.

There have been steady decline in the incidence of child 's exposure to hazardous work and child labor on balance. However, the recent estimates of child labor are still astonishingly high and the trend predict even slower pace of decline in child labor. According to ILO report in 2012, for age group 5-17 years 16.7 percent (or 264,427 in absolute number) of children are in some form of employment, 10.6 percent (equivalently 167,956) is considered as child labor, and 5.4 percent (equivalently 85,344) is involved in hazardous work. Although these figures are lower than the corresponding figures in 2000, the absolute numbers of child labor are still very high (ILO 2013).

In this document of child labor it's explained what the meaning of child labor is, why it exists, also why it is so widespread in poor countries. There are also examples of children working in deplorable conditions. This document also discusses the reason why parents send or allow their children to work in an environment as a result it finally mentions the possible solutions to end child labor.

Child labor has been a matter of local and global concern and is an enormous problem of our time. First and foremost, it is important to understand the cause of child labor and its consequences. In the present day, child labor has been a matter of health and human rights. Despite the existence of the laws that prohibit the labor of children, millions of children in developing and developed countries are estimated to be part of labor force. Children working in agricultural fields and construction sites have found to be frequently exposed to the harmful chemicals and not provided proper safety due to which there has been significant health issues among young unprivileged children. Child labor is a significant problem in Nepal. “According to the report titled Status of Domestic Child Labor in Katmandu prepared by CWISH Nepal, an NGO, for every 20 households in Kathmandu there is a child working as domestic help. According to Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), 34 percent Nepali children aged 5-14 are involved in child labor, compared with 12 percent in South Asia as a whole. Nepal Labor Force Survey 2008 states that 3.14 million children aged 5-17 are working as child labors across the country” (When Children Work). Child workers are seen on the streets, cleaning dishes at restaurants, working in the construction sites, as bus conductors on public transport. Thousands and thousands of young children work as a breadwinner for their family instead of going to school.

The term ‘child labor' is used for employment below a certain age, which is considered illegal by law and customs. Children are the greatest gift to humanity and Childhood is an important and impressionable stage of human development as it holds the potential to the future development of any society. A young child has yet to develop a substantial set of life experiences to allow for mature choices and decisions. Children depend on the support of adults to get them through life to ensure an adequate life style. Parents decide to send their child for engaging in a job as a desperate measure due to poor economic conditions. Child labor means children under 15 year to do work to do work that is physically or mentally harmful and interrupt their education and social development. Restricts the right of children to access and benefit from education and denies the fundamental opportunity to attend school.

Poverty is the leading reason that children are going to work at such a young age. A child’s labor contribution may be important for the household and for food, especially if few alternative opportunities exist to earning an income. Many children of mining or farming families are obliged to work to help

Child labour is the employment of children as money earners. It became a serious social problem in the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the 1700's, and the problem spread to other countries as they became industrialized. The problem arose when children, many below the age of 10, were employed by factories and mines. The youths were forced to work long hours under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and their wages were very small. Child workers were often deprived of the chance to attend school. Uneducated, the only work they were capable of doing was unskilled labor. Thus, they had little chance to improve themselves.

After placing their entire existence in peril, by giving up educational rights, risking their health, and losing their childhood these child earn as little as 0.35cents a day. Mikhail Bakunin once said that "Children do not constitute anyones property: they are neither the property of their parents, nor of the society. They belong only to their own future freedom." Unfortunately for the children of India they will forever be slaves to these rock mines or sewing industries. This is all they know. They have been deprived for so long of education, health and their own childhood that they forgot about their own future freedom like Mikhail Bakunin says. Child labor in India should be called child murder, murder of the child’s childhood, murder of the child’s health and most importantly murder of the child’s

Abstract: Child labour continues to be a problem even today in many parts of the world. These children are mostly inhabitants of poor undeveloped nations of South America, Africa and Asia. They live in harsh conditions with almost no access to education. The income earned by them, however minimal, is necessary to feed and clothe their families who are dependent on them. The families have no other option but to push their children to work in various informal industrial and agricultural sectors in order to make ends meet. They are simply not aware of the harm this does to their young children nor is there an orientation to send these children to school instead. The Government of India has taken a lot of legal initiatives in order to address this serious issue of child labour. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been proactively involved in the eradication of this malaise plaguing Indian society. India is also a participant in the United Nation’s International Program on Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) under the aegis of ILO. The present paper will look at the various causes which lead to child labour, the international and national legislations that are in place to eliminate this glaring menace and the steps which must be taken in order to abolish child labour in the country.

<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.