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World Day Against Child Labour - 12th June
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by Samir Joshi | June 12, 2009 at 08:35 am
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Child Labor is a scourge in which the whole world is engulfed. You can find innocent children working their hearts and souls out to satisfy their bare needs which is just getting food.
There have been worldwide campaigns, demonstrations, movements against child labor. Laws have also been imposed to stop the illegal practice of making young children work. All this is showing little effect as people continue to employ small children at measely wages and dish out not so good treatment to them.
The World Day Against Child Labour is observed each year on June 12 since 2002. It is an International Labour Organization–sanctioned holiday with the sole purpose of raising awareness and promoting activism to prevent child labour.
Let us mark this day and make the world a better place for these children. They deserve proper education and a life with dignity.
Around the globe, workers and human rights activists spent 12 June, World Day Against Child Labour, by focusing on this years goal: Give Girls a Chance. Of the estimated 218 million children who work worldwide 100 million are girls according to the International Labour Organization. More than half the number of girls work in hazardous jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, domestic services and commercial sexual exploitation.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the first World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight of these children. The day, which is observed on June 12th, is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour, reflected in the huge number of ratifications of ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour and ILOConvention No. 138 on the minimum age for employment.
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Samir Joshi
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at 08:42 on June 12th, 2009
Thanks for bringing attention to this day.
at 08:44 on June 12th, 2009
My pleasure Amy... Thank you very much for the appreciation. :)
at 10:30 on June 12th, 2009
Nice one SamirJ..
at 15:30 on June 12th, 2009
One has to be careful in defining child labour.
Children helping and working with their community and families is a learning process essential for them.
Being abused in Factories is a crime.
at 21:20 on June 12th, 2009
Thanks for your view Pachen, but I would like to add one thing.
Children helping and working with their community and families is no way considered child labor.
Child labor itself means illegal employment and abuse of children.
I apologize if I have been offensive but just wanted to clear the air.
at 19:01 on June 12th, 2009
An all too complex and ignored issue. Thanks foroosting this article.Hopefully you'll update us on itin the future.
at 21:18 on June 12th, 2009
Welcome for the Appreciation!
Yeah, true... I think what exactly child labor is known to most people but knowing and acting are two different things.