Child Labour A Silent Killer

Child labour is a serious crime all over the world.

Child Labour is the employment of children for work below the age of 18.

Child Labour is the work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally or blocking access to education).

Child labour Cruelty or necessity?

CAUSES

Child Labour

Over Population

Poverty

Market Demand

Barriers to education

Detailed causes:

• Due to unawareness, illiterate parents do not send their children to school.

• Children at a young age are summoned to “help” other family members to earn a living due to extreme poverty!

• Many a time poverty forces parents to send their children to hazardous jobs

•Children, with no parents and relatives, often do not find anyone to support them. Thus they are forced to work for their own living.

• Employers prefer to hire children because they are cheaper than their male counterparts.

Agricultural labourMiningManufacturing Industries

(carpet-weaving, sports good)shoe-shining

According to the last year’s survey of Federal Bureau of Investigation out of total 40 million children in the 5-14 age bracket, 3.8 million are working in Pakistan.

Forms of Child Labour in Pakistan

Working at auto repair shop

Cleaning cars

begging

selling small objects,

CONSEQUENCES

Psychological damage resulting from violence and abuse.

Children prone to illness, injury and even death due to machinery, biological, chemical and physical hazards

Growth deficiency

Malnutrition is the common result of this heavy work.

Emotional neglect such as deprivation of family love and affection, resulting in loneliness, and hopelessness.

Denied the right to a quality education, as adults they have little chance of obtaining a decent job.

Since these children don't receive any education, it increases illiteracy, hampering the overall economic growth of the country

Efforts to reduce Child Labour

Government policies on Child Labour

•Article 3: the state shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfillment of fundamental principle, from each according to his ability and to each according to his work.

•Article 11(3): No child below the age of 14 years shall be engaged in any factory or mine or any other hazardous employment.

•Article 25(A): The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as determined by law.

•Article 37(e): The state shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work, ensuring that women and children are not employed in vacations unsuited to their age or sex.

The Constitution of Pakistan contains a range of provisions with regards to labour rights found in Part II: Fundamental Rights and Principles of Policy.

Efforts of NGO’s

• SPARC :SPARC is a NGO which has conducted research that goes into producing its publications, including three major books on child labor, juvenile justice and child rights.

•Azad FoundationAzad Foundation exists to help street children in grave circumstances. It aims to provide protection and rehabilitation to children who are in conditions of need.

• Child Care Foundation of Pakistan (CCF) CCF is a non-profit, non governmental organization set up in October 1996, under the Societies Act 1860 with public-private partnership for charitable and education purposes. Other NGOs that has worked on the issue of child labor in Pakistan includes organization such as :

UNICEF NCCWD ROZAN

Solutions of child labour:• People don’t know the importance of education. That’s why most of children remain illiterate. Awareness must be raised and parents should pay attention to the education of their children.

•Moreover The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to 16 years in such manner as may be determined by law.

• An adequate set of child-

friendly laws and legislations are

required for protection and

well-being of children, with

emphasis on proper

implementation and continuous

monitoring.

•Give the jobs of child workers

to their adult relatives This way,

the family does not suffer.

If we want success then

we have to act upon

these principles and

then our country can

easily get rid of this

problem.

We have to distribute

the education free of

cost, give flame to the

candle of education and

distribute the light of

knowledge among the

people .

“When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.” 

Children are remarkably imaginative and resilient–but also heartbreakingly fragile and vulnerable.

“SO LET US SHARE THEIR DREAMS

AND SHAPE THEIR FUTURE .”

Our aim is to equate all CHILDREN