Article By – Ana Minal Zehra,

Class – 11 A (Huminities)

The International Labour Organization
(ILO) defines child labour as work that is
mentally, physically, socially or morally
dangerous and harmful to children; and
interferes with their schooling by: depriving them
of the opportunity to attend school; obliging
them to leave school prematurely; or requiring
them to attempt to combine school attendance
with excessively long and heavy work.
Poland, the victory over apartheid in South Africa bringing together representatives of
and today in the building of an ethical and governments, employers and workers in its
productive framework for a fair globalization. executive bodies.
The Constitution of the ILO was drafted in “हर देश तरक्की से बहुत दूर रहेगा |
early 1919 by the Labour Commission, chaired by बच्चा जो पड़ने वाला मजदूर रहेगा || ”
Samuel Gompers, head of the American “Child labour depriving education
Federation of Labour (AFL) in the United States. It Falling in inelaborate nation”
was composed of representatives from nine
countries: Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France,
Italy, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom and the Nearly 1 in 10 children are subjected to
United States. child labour worldwide, with some forced into
hazardous work through trafficking.
Members of the Commission on
International Labour Legislation to the Paris

As the ILO celebrated its 100th

anniversary in 2019, it is timely to reflected on
the many life-changing events which are linked to
the ten decades of ILO history.

The Organization has played a role at key Peace Conference. Samuel Gompers in the first
historical junctures – the Great Depression, row, third from the left. The process resulted in a
decolonization, the creation of Solidarność in tripartite organization, the only one of its kind,
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Class – 11 A (Huminities)

work, chemical/ fertilizers factories,

pharmaceutical companies etc.

*As per census 2011

Article 23 of Indian Constitution prohibits
the trafficking in human beings and forced
labour. And Article 24 prohibits the employment
of children below 14 in factories. It says that no
child below the age of fourteen years shall be
employed to work in any factory or mine or
engaged in any other hazardous employment viz
domestic and others type of Gas plant industries
as well as highly inflammable liquid petroleum
industries , fireworks, mine , high voltage electric
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Class – 11 A (Huminities)

Government has accordingly been

taking proactive steps to tackle this problem
through strict enforcement of legislative
provisions along with simultaneous
rehabilitative measures. State Governments,
which are the appropriate implementing
authorities, have been conducting regular
inspections and raids to detect cases of
violations. Since poverty is the root cause of
this problem, and enforcement alone cannot
help solve it, Government has been laying a lot
of emphasis on the rehabilitation of these
children and on improving the economic
conditions of their families.

We can reduce/ eleminate the child labour

from the country by strictly implementing child
labour act 1986 amended in 2016, providing
education by strictly implementing RTE (Right
to Education), 100 percentage implementation
of governmet schemes on the grass root level,
by removing poverty, by controling on
population , by making equality in earning and
by camping to the parents of bad effects of the
child labour.

*As per census 2011