2. 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, sociall
y or morally dangerous
and harmful .
3.
4. Types of Child Labour
Categorized by workplace:
• Industries
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• Tourism
• Streets
5. Worst form of child Labour
These forms include:
*Child Trafficking: Transfer of child
to another person in return of
consideration is called child
trafficking
*Children used in Armed Conflict:
Involvement in arm conflict is
dangerous for physical and mental
growth.
Other types of child labour are
domestic slavery, hazardous child
labour etc.
6. CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR
*Poverty is the greatest single
cause behind child labour , for
impoverished households
, income from working child.
* Lack of meaningful alternatives
, such as affordable schools and
quality education.
7. Cultures causes
In many cultures the
education of girls is less
valued or girls are simply
not expected to need
formal education ,
pushed into child labour
such as providing
domestic service. Child
labour include both
demand and supply side.
Poverty and unavibility
of good schools explain
the child labour supply
side .
8. Consequences
of child labour
*The presence of a large
number of child laborers' is
regarded as a serious issue in
terms of economic welfare
Children who work fail to get
necessary education.
9. *They do not get the opportunity
to develop
physically, intellectually, emotion
ally and psychologically.
*Children who work, instead of
going to school, remain illiterate
which limits their ability to
contribute to their own well
being as well as to community
they live in.
10. LAWS AGAINST CHILD LABOUR
Article 19: Children will be protected
from all kind of Physical or mental
violence, injury or abuse, negligence
and exploitation.
Article 27: Right of adequate living
for Physical, mental, moral and social
development
Article 28 and 29: Right to education
Article 31: Right to play
Article 32: Right to be protected from
economic exploitation and from
performing hazardous work
Article 38: Prohibited from being
recruited into arm forces or direct
participating in hostility.
12. Priorities primary
education It is no
coincidence that the
countries where child
labour is worst are those
that spend least on
primary education.
Primary education should
be free, compulsory, well-
resourced, relevant and
nearby.
13. CONCLUSION
Children work because of poverty
they and their family face, itself a
result of national and global
inequalities in distribution of
wealth. While the developed world
tries to use legislations of
eradicating child labour, it is these
same nations that, through their
control of the global economy,
consign children to the bottom
rung of the ladder.