3. HUMANBEINGS the most superior creation of Allah Almighty.
has the ability to think and meditate. made remarkable progress in
every walk of life.
4. PHASESOFHUMAN LIFE Child (birth 17 yrs) Adults (18 25 yrs)
Youth (25 50 yrs) Old (50 - death) child adult youth old
5. CHILDREN The flowers of heaven. Most beautiful and purest
creation. Innocent both inwardly and outwardly. Beauty of this
world.
6. CONTD When children put on different kinds of clothes and
begin to go to schools for the sake of knowledge. We feel a
specific joy through their innocence. BUT..
7. CONTD There are children who cannot: Wear good clothes. Eat
good food. Go to school to acquire knowledge. INSTEAD. They have to
kill all their dreams and work hard to earn living.
8. CHILDLABOUR
9. CONTENTS What child labor is??? CYCLE OF CHILD LABOUR
Islamic perspectives Sectors employing child labor Causes Child
abuse Worst forms of child labor Comparison Problems Remedies
Statistics Laws Progress rate of a country Conclusion
10. DEFINITIONS UNICEF DEFINITION UNICEF defines child as
anyone below the age of 18. Child Labor as some type of work
performed by children below age 18.
11. CONTD CONVENTIONAL DEFINITION: children working before they
reached the lawful minimum age for employment in their country.
nowadays 14 to 15 years world wide. 16 years in UK.
12. CONTD LATEST DEFINITION: refers to all young people engaged
in harmful employment, whether they are school-age or older.
13. Child labour is work for children that harms them or
exploits them in some way (i.e. physically, morally, mentally or by
blocking access to education . What is child labour ? Child labour
is... Child labour is not... Light work done after school.
Internship opportunities Helping out the family farm or
business
14. CYCLE OF CHILD LABOR
15. ISLAMIC PRESPECTIVE All human beings are equal. importance
of the children rights. Our beloved Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad
(S.A.W) and children. Children should be taught to write and
read.
16. SECTORSEMPLOYING CHILDLABOUR Carpet Industry Football
Industry Begging Household Labor Silk Industry Agriculture
Sector
17. CAUSES Poverty Lack Of Resources Unemployment Illiteracy
FAILER OF LAW Over Population Drug Addiction Orphans Tradition Of
Making Children Learn The Family Skills
18. poverty is the basic reason and driving force that compels
these children to work like labours and earn a little money at the
end of the day. The bad financial condition up- thrust to the
problem of child labour. Mostly poor families have more number of
children, so it becomes very difficult for them to survive on the
income of only one family member so they make their small children
their source of income .
19. Unemployment Of Elders. Due to unemployment its become
compulsion of parents to make their children to work in factories,
shops, even selling items on streets. There are many cases of child
labor where a child has to work against the repayment of a loan
which was taken by his father. Another important reason is
unemployment which forces the parents to send their children to
work places
20. Excess Population In villages there is trend of early
marriages and have large number of children. To fulfill the basic
needs they compel their children to do work. So they have no other
choice but to work and earn a little amount to support their
families They consider children as their source of income and they
make them to work like pulling carts, repairing machines, work in
factories, selling goods etc.
21. Tradition Of Making Children Learn The Family Skills
Children are force to follow the foot prints of their parents. They
are trained from their childhood in the profession that the family
has been following since ages. So they are unable to get primary
education . Children are forbidden from doing any other work.
Because of this the children of labourers, craftsmen etc. start
working with their parents at a very young age.
22. Many developing countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh
etc. facing a huge problem of illiteracy. Lower class people are
mostly illiterate, so it is difficult for uneducated parents to
understand the importance of education for their children. Parental
Illiteracy Pakistan has allocated only 2.3 % of the budget for
education, which is 0.3% than in 1999 Literacy rate of Pakistan is
: Male: 68.6% Female: 40.3%
23. Another main reason for the promotion of child labour is
due to the failure of government in practicing the laws to stop
child labour due to which child labour is increasing day by day .
Failure Of Laws
24. WORSTFORMSOFCHILD LABOUR
25. Harmful types of work involving anyone Under 18, includes:
Forms of slavery, servitude and forced labor Commercial sexual
exploitation illicit activities; Hazardous work that damages the
lives, health or morals of those involved.
26. PREFERRINGCHILD LABOUR!!! CHEAP OBEDIENT EASY TO THREATEN
NIMBLE FINGERS
27. COMPARISON
28. SLEEPINGWAY
29. EATINGHABITS
30. WAYSOF ENJOYMENT
31. WORKING
32. PLAYING
33. EDUCATION
34. We need to see both sides of the picture We just cant close
our EYES, IGNORE and THINK, things would get better one day...
36. REMEDIES Compulsion of free education Improving and
enforcing laws Controlled population Balance in production and
consumption Raise of family income Antinarcotics agencies
Government efforts
37. STATISTICS Today, more than 350 million children, aged from
5 to 17, are at work. 73 million working children are less than 10
years old. Out of approximately 211 million working children under
the age of 15 yrs, more than half (over 120 million) are involved
in the worst forms.
38. STATISTICSINPAKISTAN 50% percent of the economically active
children are in age group of 5 to 9 years. Out of these 3.8 million
economically active workers, 2.7 million were claimed to be
children. in the agriculture sector. 73% of them were said to be
boys. During the last year, the Federal Bureau of Statistics
released the results of its survey. The findings were that 3.8
million children of age group 5-14 years is working in Pakistan out
of total 40 million children in this age group. While buffaloes may
cost up to 15,000 rupees, children are sold at prices between 500
and 2,000 rupees.
39. Child Labour Distribution in Pakistan
40. LAWSFORCHILD LABOURERS
41. THE CHILD LABOUR PROHIBITION AND REGULATION ACT, 1986
OBJECT WEEKLY HOLIDAY HOURS AND PERIOD OF WORK APPROPRIATE TIME FOR
WORK OVERTIME
42. LABOURDAY Celebrated on 1st of May every year since 1882.
PURPOSE: Protection of the rights of the laborers. celebrate the
economic and social achievements of workers Most important of all,
to restrict the working hours of the laborers up to 8 hours.
43. WhenWEWere Children?
44. SelfWitness
45. CONCLUSION Child laborers are the economy runners of our
country. The importance of children and their value cannot be
denied. They should be given their due rights. Education and work
should go side by side with proper balance.
