IAS,UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB

INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

•PRESENTED TO: MA`AM IMAN SALEEM BUKHARI

PRESENTERS

•RANA AHSAN SALEEM

•RIMSHA ABID

•HIFSA NAVEED

•NIDA IQBAL

•MUHAMMAD AZIZ ASKARI

ROAD MAP• INTRODUCTION

• DEFINITION

• EXISTENCE TO USE THEM IN…

• CAUSES OF CHILD LABOR

• IMPACT OF CHILD LABOR

• CHILD LABOR IN STATISTICS

• NGO`S AND FOUNDATION

• LAWS AND RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN

• SUGGESTION

• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION:

•Today Pakistan is facing lot of problems but some are very common,

which are destroying our society and also economy of Pakistan. Like

child labor ,poverty, population growth, illiteracy, terrorism,

smuggling, drug abuse etc.

• Today Child labor in Pakistan is the most prominent issue of all the

social issues.

DEFINITION:

•Child labor is generally speaking, work for children that harms

them or exploits them in someway (mentally, physically or

access to education.

•Child labor in Pakistan is the employment of children for work

,which creates mental, physical, moral, and social harm to

children.

ACCORDING TO UNICEF:

United Nations International Children`s Emergency

Fund(UNICEF)defines

Child Labor As :

•Child labor is some type of work performed by children below age

“18”.

•Children working before they reached the lawful minimum age for

employment in the country .

EXISTENCE TO USE THEM IN…

•Agricultural Area

•Carpet Weaving

•Brick Kilns

•Fishing

PICTURES (CHILD LABOR)

CONT…

•Soccer ball

•Road side hotels

•Scrap businesses

•Street work and much more…

PICTURES (CHILD LABOR)

•Poverty

•Parental illiterate

•Lack of education

•Low standard of living

CONT….

•Over population

•Urbanization

•Lack of Resources

•Orphaned

IMPACT ON SOCIETY

•Adult Unemployment Increases

• Illegal Acts

• Illiteracy Rate Increase

•Wasted Human Talent

IMPACT ON CHILDREN'S

•Growth deficiency

•Exhaustion and malnutrition

• Lung diseases

•Sexually transmitted diseases

CONT…

•Mentally And Emotionally Mature Too Fast

• Insomnia

•Aggression

•Strain On Eyes

CONT…

• Involved In Criminal Activities

• Injuries From Sharp Instruments And Body Aches

• Children Are Hung Upside Down By Their Knees, Starved,

Caned, Or Lashed

IMPACT ON BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

•Profit Increases

•Easy To Handle

•Easy To Manipulate

•According to National Child Labor Survey, 1996,

3.3 million children were working in Pakistan.

•According to SPARC in 2009 there were more than

25 million children out of school.

•As per All Pakistan Labor Survey in 2011 there were

21 million children forced to work.

•The ILO estimates in a 2012 survey that

12.5 million children in Pakistan are involved

in child labor.

•According to the global slavery index 2013,

Pakistan comes third, in the prevalence of child labor.

CHILD LABOR FACT SHEET

•47 Out Of 100 Children Enrolled In Class 1 Reach Class 8,

Putting The Dropout Rate At 52.79%.

•Approximately 16.64% Of Villages In The Country Do Not Have

Facilities For Primary Schooling.

OVER 25 MILLION CHILDRENOUT OF SCHOOL

WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOR

•On 12 June, people around the world join hands to mark the

world day against child labor to raise awareness and contribute

to ending child labor .

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INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

•UNICEF(United Nations International Children’s

Emergency Fund)

• ILO (International Labor Organization)

PAKISTANI FOUNDATIONS

•SPARC (Society For The Protection

For The Rights Of Child) Since 1992

•CHILD CARE FOUNDATION OF PAKISTAN

(Fighting against child labour since 1996)

LABOR LAWS IN PAKISTAN (THE 1973 CONSTITUTION)

•ARTICLE 11(3):

No child below the age of 14 years shall

be engaged in any factory or mine or any other

Hazardous employment.

•ARTICLE 18 :

Protects the rights of its citizens to

enter upon any lawful profession or occupation.

ACTS AND ORDINANCE

•Mines Act, 1923

•The Factories Act, 1934

•Shops And Establishments Ordinance, 1969

•The Employment Of Children Act 1991

•Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 2001

INITIATIVE OF PUNJAB GOVT:

Punjab government has enforced an

ordinance titled ‘the Punjab prohibition of

child labour at brick kilns ordinance 2016

which will eliminate child labour from brick

kilns. In case of a violation of the ordinance,

the owner of the kiln would have to face a

six month imprisonment and a fine of Rs.

500,000.

As per ILO the CHILD RIGHTS are …

•The Rights to survival- to life, health, nutrition, name

and nationality

•The Rights to development- to education, care,

leisure, recreation

•The Rights to protection- from exploitation, abuse,

neglect.

•The Rights to participation- to expression,

information, thought and religion.

Encourage The Escaped Children To Back To Home And School.

Reduce The Factors That Lead To Child Labor.

Public Level Awareness Should Be Spread

Awareness Must Be Raised And The Attention Of Parents Should Be

Education Of Their Children.

Provide “Free "Education To The Children.

Give Out Punishment To Employers Hiring Children.

Child Labour Laws Should Be Strictly Put Into Practice.

Government Should Establish Proper Laws

Prizing And Punishment Policies Should Be Introduced

And Ensured.

Motivate People From All Sectors To Participate In Order To Prevent Child labor.

Boycott Companies That Promote Child Labor.

Make Monthly Donations To Organization Like

Spark,CCF, UNICEF Etc.

•Child labour is a serious matter

•That issue shouldn`t be neglected and ignored.

•Important steps should be taken to prevent and stop

child labour.

CONT…

•Participation from all level of public sectors are required to

control such a dilemma.

•People don`t know the importance of education .That`s why most

of children remains illiterate.

• Its not only responsibility of government, we are also responsible

of that .

BE THANKFUL !

•Everyone should be thankful for what we have such as

food,water,shelter, parents and most of all education. Child

laborer don`t have an education and not as much food as

we have. All they do is work for 15 hours and sleep for

about 9 hours while we have at least 12 hours of sleep.

This is why we should always be thankful.

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