Child Labour, Causes & Solution

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CHILD LABOUR
DATE 29th June 2018
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Agenda
CONTENTS

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• Item 2
• Item 3
• Item 4
• Item 5

• What is child labour?
• Causes of child labour
• Statistics of child labour in 2017
• Child labour in India
• Kailash Sathyarthi
• Solution to child labour

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What is child labour?

• Child labour is the act of 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 harmful.

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Causes of Child labour

• Poverty
• Schooling
• Cultural and social superstition
• Macroeconomy causes
• Illiteracy
• Overpopulation
• Urbanisation

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Statistics of child labour

• More than 200 million children today are child
  labourers.
• 73 million of these children are below 10 years
  old.
• Most children work on farms that produce consumer
  products such as cocoa, coffee and other crops.
• 20 million child workers are employed in
  factories that make garments, carpets, toys,
  matches and hand-rolled cigarettes.

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Child labour in India

• NGOs of India say the real figure of child
  labour in India is up to 60 million.
• Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya
  Pradesh have the highest child labour rate.
• India has 1,26,66,377 child labourers of which UP
  has 19,27,997 child labourers.

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Kailash Satyarthi

• Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights
  activist. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and
  founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan.

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Solution to Child labour

• Strict enforcement of laws against child labour.
• Awareness about child labour among general
  public.
• Increase in employment of adults.
• Ensuring education for each child.

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