Child labour & Child Exploitatin

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Today i will share an article that's about child labour.

A sizeable number of growing children of poor socio economic class especially in rural areas are known to be inducted as child labour.Studies have shown that level at very young ages can have dire consequences on the child development both physical and mental.Child labourers always had lower growth and healthy status compared to their non-working counterparts,besides exposure to occupational hazard at a very young stage in their life.in 1973 the ILO passed a convention establishing 15 is the meaning of work age for most sectors while permitting light work from age 13 provided that such work is unlikely to harm child's health morals and safety or prejudice his school attendance.

They have to grind bricks and stones. They work as street hawkers. Sometimes they become pickpockets . They also work as bus conductors or labourers in small factories and polish boots. They sell nuts and chanachur. Sometimes they work in houses as male/female servants. In most cases, the masters and house wives are very harsh to them. They do not regard them human being.They suffer from malnutrition as they lack in proper food. It is the failure of the government and the society.

According to the statistic in absolute terms almost half of child labour 72.1 million in Africa,62.1 million in Asia and 10.7 million in the America 1.2 million in the arrested 5.5 million in Europe and Central Asia.In term of prevalence one in five children in Africa are in child labour,whilst prevalence in other region is between 3% and 7%, 2.9% in the Arab States 1 in 35 children,4.1% in Europe and Central Asia 1 in 25,5.3% in the America's 1 in 19 and 7.4 % in asia-pacific region 1 in 14.

Hazardous child labour is most prevalent among the 15 to 17 years old.Nevertheless up to fourth of all ages child labour (19 million) is done by children less than 12 years old.

Children in domestic service are the most invisible child labourers, their work is performed within individual homes remove from public scrutiny and their condition of live and Labour are entirely dependent on the homes of their employer the number of children involved in domestic service around the world is unquantifiable because of the head and nature of the work but it's certainly runs into million into the fourth child labour is present in all vision x of economic for the most part there is neither official data on the incidence of forced labour not a wide spread awareness among society and a large that force liver is a problem.

The Child Labour(Prohibition & Regulation)Act 1986

Except in the process of family based work or recognised School based activities children are not permitted to work in occupations concerned with

passenger,goods Mail transport by railways

Carpet weaving

Cinder picking

Cement manufacturing

Cloth printing

Dyeing,weaving

Mica cutting

Abattoirs

Printing etc.

Causes of child labour

There are several causes of child Labour and they are more complex and context specific. However, more important reasons may be in identified as under, generally, poverty and vulnerability sometimes necessitate children earring income, low-quality education, Social and cultural traditions, children’s own desire.

Child exploited in domestic services generally paid little or nothing over and above food and lodging.In addition children in domestic services specialist are susceptible to physical and psychological harm.Many are forced to undertake class that are completely inappropriate for their age and physical strength so it affects on their my mental health also.

Statistics of Bangladesh

Several surveys have also made attempts to assess the extent of child labour inBangladesh. According to ILO, 30% of Bangladesh’s children are economically active,suggesting a figure of 11-12 million working children out of its 38.5 million children. Butaccording to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association(BGMEA), there are about 31.7 million children between the ages 5 and 14 in Bangladesh,of whom about 13.7 million receive education . The remaining 18 million do not go to school.

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