Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse

An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labor - one in six children in the world. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, laboring behind the walls of workshops, hidden from view in plantations.

Children living in the poorest households and in rural areas are most likely to be engaged in child labour. Those burdened with household chores are overwhelmingly girls. Millions of girls who work as domestic servants are especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

Labour often interferes with children’s education. Ensuring that all children go to school and that their education is of good quality are keys to preventing child labour.

5 comments:

  1. its our duty to help these children..if every one think about it we can solve this problem

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  2. Child labour is problems , we all just discuss about it but no one who can define its solution.

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  3. We all should take some steps to stop child labour from our Country.

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  4. Child labour is the major problem in our country

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  5. child protection policy should not be made and planned rather than implemented in a proper and organized way.

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