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What is Child Labour?1.Work that deprives children of: - childhood; potential; dignity2. Work that is harmful to physical and mental development:mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous andharmful to children3. Work that interferes with their schooling by: depriving them of the opportunity to attend school obliging them to leave school prematurely requiring them to attempt to combine school attendancewith excessively long and heavy work IPECDefining the Worst Form of Child Labo

Defining the Worst Form of Child Labour

Slavery or similar practices: trafficking of children, debt bondage,forced labour Using or offering a child for illicit activities (production andtrafficking of drugs)

Work which by its nature or because of the circumstances in which it iscarried out is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of the child,i.e. “hazardous work”.

CAUSES Family/culture

acceptable practices Poverty Internal/external factors Economic shock

(crisis) Supply /DEMAND side

factors

No one is born as street kids in the real sense of the word.  It is the society and the evils of the systems that shapes the children into street children…

Child Labor Quick FactsThe International Labour Organization estimates that 215 million

children ages 5-17 are engaged in child labor (ILO, Accelerating action against child labour, 2010).

An estimated 12 percent of children in India ages 5-14 are engaged in child labor activities, including carpet production (UNICEF, State of the World’s Children 2010).

Approximately six out of ten slaves in the world are bonded laborers in South Asia (Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, 2008)

It would cost $760 billion over a 20-year period to end child labor. The estimated benefit in terms of better education and health is about six times that—over $4 trillion in economies where child laborers are found (ILO,Investing in Every Child, 2003).

Some children are forced to weave up to 18 hours a day, often never leaving the confines of the factory or loom shed.

Children trafficked into one form of labor may be later sold into another, as with girls from rural Nepal, who are recruited to work in carpet factories but are then trafficked into the sex industry over the border in India (ILO/IPEC, Helping Hands or Shackled Lives? Understanding Child Domestic Labour and Responses to It, 2004).