child labour

Child labour

All form of slavery

iIllicit activities

Lthe use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking ofd drugs as defined in the relevant international treaties

Prostitution

Health

work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm health, safety or morals of children

Worst form of child labour

or praties similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict

the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for the production of pornography or for pornographic performances

Child labour in the world

In the world, 160 million children-63 million girls and 57 million boys- are in child labour. Nearly half of whom 79 million children are in hazardous work

in child labour

in Hazardous work

Child labour by age and sex

Child labour is more prevalent among boys than girls at every age

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girls

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History of child labour

1973

The Minimum Age Convention, ratified by 172 countries, sets the minimum age for employment but allows some exceptions.

1992

The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) is founded to promote the global elimination of vhild labour.

2021

1989

The UN enacts the Convention on the Rights of the Child to guarantee protection of children's rights to grow and thrive.

1999

The Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, ratified by 186 countries, requires ending pratices like slavery, child trafficking ecc...

The UN General Assembly declares this to be the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.

Then the next yea, in 1974, the International Labour Organization adopts Convention 138, which sets 18 as the minimum age for undertaking work that might be hazardous to a person health,safety or morals

Infact then, in 1990, The Convention on the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and widley acclaimed as a landmark achievement for human rights, recognizing the roles of children as social, economic, political, civil and cultural actors.

Then, in 2000, the ILO adopts the Worst Forms Child Labour Convention, calling for the immediate pòrohibition and elimination of any form of work that is likely to harm the health, safety or moral of children

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Biography

Iqbal Masih

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Iqbal Masih became a debt slave in a carpet factory in Pakistan when he was a child. Five years later he was set free. He gave other children the courage to leave their owners.

Bio Great Character

symbol in the fight against child labour

Iqbal was threatened by the carpet factory owners and was murdered on 16 april 1995. He is a symbol for the struggle against child labour and in 2000, he received the first World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child posthumously (after his death)

Biografia If Iqbal were still alive today, he would be 34 years old. Born into a very poor family, he was already working at the age of four and was sold by his father to a carpter manufacturer at the age of five to pay off a debt. From the day on he spent his life behind a loom for ten to twelve hours a day. Years passed but in 1992 Iqbal managed to escape to participate with other boys in a demonstration against child exploitation. When he returned to his master he refused to continue working. They beat him but he didn't give up to the pòoint of having to leave the village with his family. Iqbal was hosted in a hostel, began to study, to travel, to pòartecipòate in international meetings to bear his testimony precisely on the issue of child labour in his country. A journey that stopòpòed on Easter day 1995 when the child worker and defender of the other boys died mysteriously.

In conclusion

the child labour is on the rise again

Unfortunately, today, the number of children forced into child labour has risen to 160 million worldwid, an increase of 8.4 milliom ober the pòast four years,a lot of children are at risk from the impòact of the COVID-19 crisis. This is satarted in a new point repòort by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UMICEF

Child labour: 2020 global estimates, trends and the road forward report reports that pòrogress towards eliminating child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years, reversing the downward trend that has seen child labour child decrease by 94 million between 2000 and 2016