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What Is Child Labour

Child labour refers to work that is dangerous or unsuitable for children due to their age. It can involve full-time employment of children under the legal minimum age. Whether certain forms of work constitute child labour depends on factors like the child's age, type of work, hours, and working conditions. Child labour is caused by poverty, cultural traditions, lack of access to education, market demand, income shocks to households, and insufficient legislation/enforcement. It deprives children of education and childhood, jeopardizes their health, safety, and development, and exposes them to abuse with long-term consequences.

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What Is Child Labour

Child labour refers to work that is dangerous or unsuitable for children due to their age. It can involve full-time employment of children under the legal minimum age. Whether certain forms of work constitute child labour depends on factors like the child's age, type of work, hours, and working conditions. Child labour is caused by poverty, cultural traditions, lack of access to education, market demand, income shocks to households, and insufficient legislation/enforcement. It deprives children of education and childhood, jeopardizes their health, safety, and development, and exposes them to abuse with long-term consequences.

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What is Child Labour

It is work that children should not be doing

because
they are too young to work, or if
they are old enough
to work because it is
dangerous or otherwise unsuitable for them
Child labour can also be defined as the full-time
employment of children who are under a minimum
legal age.
Whether or not particular forms of work can
be
called child labour depends on the
childs age, the
type and hours of work
performed and the conditions under which it is
performed, as set out in the ILO Conventions

Child Labour and its origins


Industrial Revolution

Causes of Child Labour


Poverty
Culture and tradition
Barriers to education
Market demand
The effects of income shocks on households
Lack of legislation and/or poor enforcement of

existing legislation

Consequences of Child Labour


Deprives them of schooling or requires

them to assume the multiple burden of


schooling and work
Jeopardises their health and safety high

risk of illness and injuryeven death


Affects their physical development

(malnutrition, long working hours in bad


conditions)
Exposes them to physical and psychological

abuse and violence which all have long term


consequences
Deprives them of their childhood and of

Child Labour as defined by the law


Under the act, Child means a person who has
not completed his 14 years of age.
Any such person engaged for wages , whether in
cash or kind, is a CHILD LABOUR
According to UNICEF , all the children not being
provided education at a school are considered as
child labourers

Child labor can be found in nearly every industry


Agriculture
An estimated 60% of child labor occurs in agriculture, fishing,

hunting, and forestry. Children have been found harvesting


manufacturing
About 14 million children are estimated to be directly
involved in manufacturing goods.
Mining and Quarrying
Child laborers suffer extremely high illness and injury rates in
underground mines, opencast mines, and quarries. Children
as young as 6 or 7 years old break up rocks, and wash,
sieve, and carry ore.

Domestic Service
Many children, especially girls, work in domestic service,

sometimes starting as young as 5 or 6. This type of child


labor is linked to child trafficking. Domestic child laborers
can be victims of physical, emotional, and sometimes
sexual abuse.
Hotels, Restaurants, and Retail

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