shaan singh's List: Child Labor

• Saidazimova first discusses Tajikistan's use of child labor as a ‘lifeline for their families’ who are forced by extreme poverty to take their children out of school and put them to work on the family farm or marketplace.
• Uzbekistan, where forced child labor is actually state policy, as the children are deemed necessary in the major cotton harvest every September
• with their cotton and have had some success. Major clothing companies such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Gap, and H & M,
• Sticking with the kids, on July 16 Tashkent held a UNICEF sponsored conference promoting comprehensive prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the region (PMTCT).

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• The boys work 20-hour days, seven days a week
• the employer made the little boy massage his feet every evening. Khan did not do a very good job one day and the employer began thrashing him.
• State Labour Department say 90 per cent of children in the zari units in Mumbai are migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
• • This part of the whole ngo story is amazing when those boys died because of the child labor it saved 400 kids lives !
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• 400 children were rescued in a dramatic raid in the Madanpura area, which has perhaps the highest number of zari factories in Mumbai.
• The Labour Department says there must be at least another 25,000 children working in this sector, whom it plans to rescue.
• According to the Central Labour Department, India has about 10 crore children in the workforce.
• government has suddenly become proactive in an area that has been screaming for attention for so many years is unclear.
• Additionally, says Agarwal, none of the other laws which protect children, such as the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment Act), 1966, and the Factories Act, 1948, provide for any form of rehabilitation for rescued children.

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• Little children

  

  slaving their childhoods away in dhabas, homes and other establishments to help their poor parents augment the family income.  
• 1986 to ban children employed in eateries and households, maybe they will be able to reclaim their childhood.  
• The reason why children start work so early is of course grinding poverty.

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• So in most of the schemes and plans on education
• It is a well-researched truth that there exists a vicious cycle of poverty and child labour as well as child labour and illiteracy.
• the push-pull factors that link child labour, education and poverty and this should be done through systematic approaches by using a wide range of models and schemes.

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• the employment of children

  

  as domestic servants or in the hospitality sector, including dhabas, teashops, restaurants, hotels and resorts.  
• The penalty for flouting the law is a jail term ranging from three months to two years with or without a fine that could range from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000.  
• working children" from "psychological traumas and at times, even sexual abuse."  
• n the existing law, children are prohibited — under the Child

  

  Labour (Prohibition and regulation) Act, 1986 — from working in hazardous industrial units like bidi-making, carpet-weaving, soap manufacture, wool-cleaning and in factories where chemical and toxic substances are manufactured.

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• the ILO estimates, "246 million child workers aged 5 and   17 were involved in child Labour,
• which 171 million were involved   in work that by its nature is hazardous to their safety, physical or   mental health, and moral development.
• Moreover, some 8.4 million children   were engaged in so-called 'unconditional' worst forms of child Labour,
• include forced and bonded Labour, the use of children in armed   conflict, trafficking in children and commercial sexual exploitation."
  
• 61% in Asia, 32% in Africa, and 7% in Latin America, 1% in US, Canada,   Europe and other wealthy nations In Asia, 22%
• In Africa, one child in three is at work, and in Latin America, one   child in five works.
• vast majority   of work is for their families, in homes, in the fields or on the streets."

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• Work ranges from taking care of animals and planting and harvesting food, to many kinds of small manufacturing
• auto repair, and making of footwear and textiles.
• more girls work in some jobs: for instance, as domestic maids. Being a maid in someone’s house can be risky.
• More boys than girls work outside their homes.
• typically are cut off from friends and family
• Less than 5% of child laborers make products for export to other countries.

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• where children work more than nine hours in a day; earn less than a minimum wage or no wages at all; work in hazardous conditions for health and safety;
• no access to education
• work outside of their family's home
• exploited for the commercial sex industry and other forms of bonded labor in Africa and Asia.

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  Child Labor in India

    

  Poor children in India begin  working at a very young and tender age. Many children have to work to help  their families and some families expect their children to continue the family  business at a young age.
• Children perform a variety of jobs: some  work in factories, making products such as carpets and matches; others work on  plantations, or in the home.
• For boys the type of work is very different because  they often work long hours doing hard physical labor outside of the home for  very small wages.

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• Nearly 30% of population in poor countries are poorest of poor who are not even able to earn enough for one day food with  big family have to largely depend on children to earn and feed.
• children are mainly illiterate or semi literate  are unable to find jobs, which can provide enough salary.
• Dream of education to children is impossible
• 180 million children, are exposed to the worst forms of child labour

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• It is a serious and extensive problem, with many children under the age of fourteen working in carpet making factories, glass blowing units and making fireworks
• there are 20 million child laborers in the country, while other agencies claim that it is 50 million.

• Child labor is done by any working child who is under the age specified by law.
• “work” means full time commercial work to sustain self or add to the family income.
• hazard to a Child’s mental, physical, social, educational, emotional and spiritual development.
• activities to feed self and family is being subjected to “child labor’.

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