Child Labour

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What is Child Labour?

• Child Labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.

Example of Child Labour

• Prostitutes• Factories• Farms•Newspaper collection

Example of Countries• India • Africa• Thailand• Myanmar• New York, USA• Brazil• Vietnam• China• Indonesia• Philippines• Pakistan• Bangladesh• Mexico• Nepal• South Africa• Turkey• Nigeria• Costa Rica

Child Labour: A Vicious Circle

• Vicious: Wish to hurt someone or something very badly.

• Social Stratification: to arrange the different parts of something in separate layers or groups.

• Eg: The Prime Minister wants to reduce social stratification and make the country a classless society.

Unsafe Home Environment

Disease Injury

Unhealthy working environment

Working Child

Child work to support family.

No Education

Social Stratification

Difficult EXPERIENCE

Difficult INFLUENCED Difficult

Situation

Poor Family

Sources• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn8chUKrdsA• http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=child

+labour+&view=detail&id=08A23FB5D11F5AFEA16969408EFE0FF82DD78E83&qpvt=child+labour+&FORM=IDFRIR

Reflection• What can the authorities do to

prevent child labour?• A way to prevent Child labour is to donate money

so that a child can have an education. Another one is to build a home for the children. In there they will not be allowed to work, but only to learn! There they will have a chance to have a better life. After all they are our future generation.

• Law: governments, workers' and employers' organizations committed to eliminating the worst forms of child labour, including hazardous work, by 2016. In 2010, the international community has adopted the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, which highlights the predominance of child labour in agriculture.

Reflection• FAO's work strengthening families' ability to

earn decent incomes, food availability and nutrition helps empower families to send their children to school rather than to work.

Article(Child labour around the world)

• In this Wednesday, Sept 26, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi child laborers work at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh adopted the National Child Labour Elimination Policy 2010, providing a framework to eradicate all forms of child labour by 2015, but according to the International Labour Organisation there are about 3.2 million child labourers in Bangladesh. -- PHOTO: AP

• Images relating to child labour. According to the International Labour Organization, there are around 215 million children working. Many of them work full-time and do not receive proper nutrition and care.

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