CHILD LABOR

INTRODUCTION
• Child Labor  refers to the misuse of children’s ability through any type of work that robs
children of their childhood, affects with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally,
physically, socially or morally harmful.
• Child labor has existed to changing levels throughout history. During the 19th and early 20th
centuries, many children aged 5–14 from poorer families worked in Western nations and their
colonies. These children mostly worked in agriculture, home-based assembly operations,
factories, mining, and services, some worked night shifts fixed 12 hours.
• Children, especially from poor backgrounds, are mostly helpless to slavery as they can be
more easily tricked than adults. They are easily controlled to demand higher wages or better
working conditions.
• Some are far away from their families, while others have no one to look out for them, or no
wider support network to recognize the signs that they are being misused.
 COMMON FORMS OF CHILD
LABOR
• Children used by others for profit in prostitution, pornography, or other forms of sexual abuse.
• Children forced into begging, crime or the drug trade.
• Forced labor, for example in agriculture, factories, construction, brick kilns, mines, bars,
tourist industry or in private homes.
• They can be seen in agricultural sector which includes farming, fishing and forestry.
• The retail and services sector includes work in restaurants and hotels, retail trade, transport
and storage.
• The industry and manufacturing sector includes work in mining and quarrying, manufacturing
items to sell and construction.
• Domestic work includes house-keeping, cooking and childcare in a home environment.
Percentage of Child Labor in different types of work
 LAWS ON CHILD LABOR
• The government has established laws and regulations related to child labor. However, gaps
exist in Pakistan’s legal framework to effectively protect children from the worst forms of
child labor, including with regard to minimum age for work and hazardous work.
• In 2017, Pakistan made a moderate advancement in efforts to remove the worst forms of child
labor.
• Sindh Province passed the Prohibition of Employment of Children, which establishes age 15
as the minimum age for employment and age 19 as the minimum age for employment in
hazardous work.
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province also passed the Free Compulsory Primary and Secondary
Education Act, making education free and compulsory for children ages 5 to 16. In addition,
four provinces assigned funds to conduct child labor surveys, using the ILO-UNICEF
Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor methodology. However,
children in Pakistan engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in forced domestic
work and in bonded labor in brick kilns.
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province also passed the Free Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education Act,
making education free and compulsory for children ages 5 to 16. In addition, four provinces assigned funds to
conduct child labor surveys, using the ILO-UNICEF Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child
Labor methodology. However, children in Pakistan engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in
forced domestic work and in bonded labor in brick kilns.
• Balochistan Province has not established a minimum age for work or harmful work in agreement with
international standards. In addition, provincial governments do not have the resources necessary to sufficiently
enforce laws prohibiting child labor.
• • Article 3: the state shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfillment of
fundamental principle, from each according to his ability and to each according to his work.
• • 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 25(A): The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to
sixteen years in such manner as determined by law.
• • Article 37(e): The state shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work, ensuring that
women and children are not employed in vacations unsuited to their age or sex, and for maternity benefits for
women in employment
 ROLE OF UNICEF
• UNICEF works to prevent and respond to child labour, especially by strengthening service workforce.
• Social service workers play an important role in recognizing, avoiding and managing risks that can
lead to child labour. Our efforts improve and support the workforce to identify and respond to
possible situations of child labour through case management and social protection services, including
early identification.
• They also focus on strengthening parenting and community education advantages to guide harmful
social norms that spread child labour, while partnering with national and local governments to prevent
violence and abuse.
• With the International Labour Organization (ILO), we help to collect data that make child
labour visible to decision makers. These efforts balance work to strengthen birth
registration systems, ensuring that all children own birth certificates that prove they are under
the legal age to work.
• Children removed from labour must also be safely returned to school or training. UNICEF
supports increased access to quality education and provides complete social services to keep
children protected and with their families.
• To address child trafficking, they work with United Nations partners and the European Union
on advantages that reach 13 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
 WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
• Review national laws regarding child labour.
• Check the ages of our employees
• Stop hiring children below the minimum age
• Remove children from hazardous work
• Reduce the hours for children under the minimum age
• Apply a safe and health management system
• Provide support to children found in child labour
• Support education for all ages
• Adapt your business to a child-labour free reality
• Ensure your new suppliers do not use child labour
In many countries world wide, many organizations are working as a team to protect child labour in
a different cultural aspect. They work to secure future of children which is affected by slavery.
• In Niger, children from families of slave background have right to use formal education for the
first time. The six schools initiated by Anti-Slavery.
• In Nepal, survivors of trafficking receive legal training and gain experience at police stations
to support other victims when child trafficking is reported.
• In Senegal, young boys have been protected from being forced to beg on the streets and
received care from local families. By the work of local communities.
CHILD LABOR in the sights of others
“Our children should not be so taught as
to despise labour”

--Mahatama Gandhi—
“Where Slavery is there, Liberty cannot be and where Liberty is there,
Slavery cannot be”
--Charles Summer—
“Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that
intelligent labour is the highest form of prayer”
--Robert Green—

“One Child, one Teacher, one Book and one Pen can Change the world”
--Malala Yousofzai--
 Presented by :
• Maheen Khan
• Shanza
• Tehreem Azhar
• Uruba Wakeel

Thank you.