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Child Labor laws have been referred to as “one of the most urgent challenges of

our time”. Child labor persists today because there remains a wall of silence about

it, apathy, and indifference. Children are the greatest gift to humanity. They need

to go to school, so they can get an education, not work. Child labor is a serious problem that is

happening in many countries. Many children are doing work that is damaging to their mental,

physical and emotional well-being. Most of the child laborers suffer miserable and difficult lives. They

do not go to school, instead they work jobs and make little money that they give to their poor

families. Nearly 75% of children who are involved in child labor are involved in the worst forms of it.

Some of the worst forms of child labor include, trafficking, armed conflict, slavery, sexual

exploitation, and hazardous work. Children, families, and the economy all suffer because of child

labor.

World Leaders should try to resolve this problem because this is very unethical, it is detrimental to

the children, and it is making countries poorer. The ILO has discovered that the elimination of child

labor would yield enormous benefits. According to the IPEC, the elimination of child labor would

yield an internal return rate of 44% and the benefits would be almost seven times the cost of

eliminating it. By eliminating child labor, reducing poverty, providing work for parents, and by

providing universal education for children, there will be a significant improvement in the social,

economic and health of a country and its people. We need to put an end to child labor right now.

It is estimated that in Africa and Asia account for 93% of child laborers aged 5-14

years old (facts on child labor). Sub Saharan Africa accounts for the largest

proportion of working children, of about 48 million (facts on child labor). Many

of these children die young from work-related deaths and still others have no

future or opportunity of education.

By eliminating child labor, reducing poverty, providing work for parents, and by providing universal

education for children, there will be a significant improvement in the social, economic and health of a

country and its people. We need to put an end to child labor right now.

Is it persuasive enough? Your thoughts?

India accounts for the second highest number where child labour in the world is concerned. Africa accounts for the highest number of children employed and exploited. The fact is that across the length and breadth of the nation, children are in a pathetic condition. While experts blame the system, poverty, illiteracy, adult unemployment; yet the fact is that the entire nation is responsible for every crime against a child. Instead of nipping the problem at the bud, child labour in India was allowed to increase with each passing year. And today, young ones below the age of 14 have become an important part of various industries; at the cost of their innocence, childhood, health and for that matter their lives. Bonded Child Labour : This is also known as slave labour and is one of the worst types of labour for children and adults, alike. In fact, in 1976 the Indian Parliament enacted the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act; herein declaring bonded illegal. However, the fact remains is that this system of working still continues. According to certain experts approximately 10 million bonded children labourers are working as domestic servants in India. Beyond this there are almost 55 million bonded child labourers hired across various other industries.  Child Labour in The Agricultural Sector : According to a recent ILO report about 80% child labourers in India are employed in the agriculture sector. The children are generally sold to the rich moneylenders to whom borrowed money cannot be returned.

Children Employed At  Factories:  According to recent estimates almost 60,000 children are employed in the glass and bangle industry and are made to work under extreme conditions of excessive heat.  Of the 2,00,000 labour force in the matchbox industry, experts claim that 35% are children below the age of 14. They are made to work over twelve hours a day, beginning work at around 4 am, everyday. According to a recent report by the ILO almost 4,20,000 children are employed in the carpet industry of India. According to researchers there are about 50,000 children employed in the brass industry of India and around the same amount in the lock industry.

Child Labour

Child labour is an act of injustice which must be eliminated. You may ask ‘What is child labour?’ Child labour is five year olds being tied to rug looms to keep them from running away, twelve year olds working on tobacco farms and innocent children being used as soldiers.

Each and everyday 218 million children, a number over ten times the population of Australia are forced to undertake intense labour. These children are merely five to seventeen years old. Day by day they are enchained to their duties and kept from an education, their human rights and often their loved ones. These children just like you or I are being abused and forced to work under unbearable conditions, in mines, with chemicals and dangerous machinery.

Around the world 18 percent of children between the ages of five and fourteen are working full-time and an additional 16.7 percent are working part-time. These children are no different from our brother and sisters. Why should they have to suffer this injustice? They do not deserve this treatment. Society has given these children an incredibly harsh sentence for a crime they did not commit.

Is this what we want for the future? To perpetuate the cycle of poverty within the life of millions of children. Together we as educated global citizens must take a stand against this. Children are being forced by poverty, political instability, discrimination and matters out of their own hand to work tirelessly to receive next to nothing.

While we are sitting in these warm classrooms, with privileges as far as the eye can see a child called Melse is working in a tiny room with 20 other children as weavers. He was trafficked from his hometown in Chencha, Ethiopia, three years ago. He does not receive wages for his hard labour but instead just enough food to keep him alive. His five siblings were also trafficked and he does not know their whereabouts. There are many other children like Melse, 218 million all over the world who are suffering as we speak.

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