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State of CHILD LABOUR in the world!

On the rising population there is also rise in demand of  family members related to commodities. Many of the family don’t even get 2 meals per day! there is lack of only one thing and that is money. It is said that

“Empty stomach can make you to do anything”

To fill the stomach people can do anything especially when they have family to feed. Now-a-days the crises and cruelty has increased drastically that alone 1 man cannot feed the all 4 members in the lower labour section. So, unwillingly all the family members had to work at the field and contribute some money towards family to sleep without an empty stomach at night.

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There are many schemes released by government to stop the child labour like making primary education almost free for poor children along with mid-day meal to them so that they do not have to crave for the meals and keep focus on the study, they are also regularly checked by medical if there is any weakness in any of the student. National Child Labour Project (NCPL) is a central government branch which takes strict actions against child labour and works at the best to resist this act. According to UNICEF, India with the highest amount of population has also high number of child labour cases under the age of 14 and 1% of it i.e. approx 1,20,000 are forced to engage in hazardous jobs.

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Every year on the day of 12 June it is marked as Anti-Child labour day to draw the attention on the issue of child labour. Every year there is different themes on this day:

  • In 2020 the theme was “Protect children from child labour, now more than ever”.
  • In 2019 the theme was  “Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams”.
  • In 2018 the theme was “Generation safe and Healthy”.
  • IN 2017 the theme was “In conflicts and disasters, protect children from child labour”.
  • In 2016 the theme was “End child labour in supply chains – It’s everyone’s business!”.
  • In 2015 the theme was “NO to child labour – YES to quality education!”.

Now the matter is not just to put it to one day and on a piece of paper, it’s a world wide conflict and has to be somehow resolved. Every year various types of acts and event are performed by students of schools, college and NGOs too, but this year digitally the message was forwarded as due to lockdown and pandemic situation rallies, etc cannot be held.

“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?” -Félix J. Palma

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World Day against Child labour

If we see around us, we regularly see children on street selling balloons, small girls are working as maid in homes with their mother, in village children are working in field, some are working in factories which is very dangerous for them. So we can see there are many children who are in child labour.

So World Day against Child labour is standard holiday first launched in 2002 by International labour organization aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour.

According to ILO’s data, “hundreds of millions of boys and girls in this world are involved in work that deprives them to receive an adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedom, voilating this way their rights. Of these children, more than half children are exposed in worst form of child labour like working in hazardous environment, slavery and other form of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.

Child labour affect children’s physical, cognitive and social development. Children who are working in factories are very dangerous for their health. While working they are at high risk for illness such as respiratory illness, and they exposed to harmful chemicals which also affect their physical development. These children oftee suffer from malnutrition which leads to serious health and mental conditions in later life.

According to researchers, teenagers who spend more than 20hrs per week working at a higher risk to problematic social behaviour like drug abuse and aggression. This also affect their education development, most children dropout from school and if they remain in school, they perform very poorly.

It also social development, as in this age it is very necessary to spend time with peers and family members which help them to built positive relationships but long working hours do not led to properly from these relations which lead to insecurities and improper identity development in later stage. It also leads to a feeling isolation and depression and prevent formation of healthy emotion and relation with others.

So, it is important to takeout children from the darkness. It is necessary to aware people about the ill-effects of child labour and how it is dangerous for the children. Strict action should be taken against the people who are involved in this.

Childhood is a very period of one’s life. It is the age of seeing dreams, playing, troubling elders through their naughtiness, not of going to factories or streets or working. So it’s not just about one day, it is our responsibility to spread awareness about child labour and take actions against it everyday and don’t let any of the child being trapped in this darkness.

Protect Children Labor, Now More Than Ever .

Children around the world are regularly engaged in hazardous activities that affect their mental, physical, social or educational development. Every year World Day Against Child Labor Day is celebrated on 12 June to provide a growing and developing environment for children to live a dignified life. In 1919, the International Labor Organisation (ILO) was founded and in 2002″World Day against Child Labour” was established to abolish child labor.

Impact of COVID-19 on Children

World Day against Child Labor 2020 focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on child labor. The COVID-19 pandemic has a huge impact on Livelihoods of the labor market and children are often the first to suffer. The economic slowdown has forced millions of children to left their school and opt for minimal jobs to support their parents for the livelihood. This year, the World Day Against Child labor is being conducted as a virtual campaign and organized jointly with the Global March Against child labor and the International Partnership for Cooperation on Child labor in Agriculture.  

If children are provided with a suitable environment to enjoy their life, surely they will contribute to the economic and social growth of the country. So stop child labor, protect the right of children, and support them.

“Child Labor – A Question To Humanity”?

Today’s era has become completely the opposite world which man ideally ever thought of. Clean environment, fresh water to drink and pure air to breath, with no discrimination and everyone considered equal under god’s eye and especially the Constitution. But man had changed and challenged various aspects as per his own greed and worked forward with them so for his own good. This isn’t limited to the innocent living beings also, the ones.Considering the fact and the greed to just let the work being done,he hasn’t let children out of these and rather indulge them at such an early stage of their life so as to get his work done.Life hasn’t been so easy for every individual as they stepped into the world. Nothing got them so easy going and rather had to sacrifice at an early stage of life. With a disbelief in such a act of child labor with around 152 million children around the world still in the act as per the survey till 2019. ..

Talking about child labor  which generally is banned in various countries, is still being practised around various parts of the world. These small children are let to do work by their parents so as to earn more money for their living. As per the reports of “International Labor Organization”,around 22000 of these innocent souls give their lives working around the globe each year. This is really a sad fact to hear, but is the hard truth, which these people who involve them at work don’t care. These children have been working in hazardous conditions, which is affecting their health and deteriorating day by day. It’s shocking that around 88 million of boys and 64 million of girls have been a part of this brutal act of child labor. Many of us believe that this shouldn’t be done and such kind of acts must be stopped, but still many of children every year are led to work at the age when they should study and enjoy life peacefully. 

“Indian Constitution bans child labor under the fundamental rights which defines the right for and of children to be free and compulsory education. Under the age of 14 years. UNICEF has been working in the efforts to reduce and eliminate this acts of child labor through various laws and policies defining complete freedom for these innocents.But what really matters is the strong implementation of these rules, and to be followed around the world.” 

We need to understand that every individual especially these innocent kids have the right to be and feel free and must not be forced to work even if they wish for before the age as per the law. They must be motivated to study and play which should help them grow both physically, emotionally and mentally. Every child must be treated equally irrespective of it’s background, caste and religion. Humanity is the biggest religion, which gives us the message to spread Peace, Harmony, Brotherhood and sense of Unity, and we must follow and respect it. 

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“We must not led our coming generation to be shown the darker path of life, struggles, hardships and pain are a part of life but at the right stage and age, don’t let them lose out their innocence in the greed of more money, let them live their freedom, with education and let them win the world with the rights they truly deserve”. 

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