BHEEM

RAJ (08IN44)

E-mail:bheemrajbhatti44@yahoo.com

Socially accepted crime

Today Pakistan is facing a lot of social problems but some are very common in Pakistan, which are destroying our society and also economy of Pakistan. Child labour is a global issue. Child labour is one of the most common problems in Asia and also in Pakistan

Child Labour is work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way e.g. Physically Mentally morally or blocking access to education

Dus ka ek.....! koi lelona.......! main bhuka hu.....!

Pakistan
A young girl carries a load of wool down a street in a poor section of Peshawar. Pakistan has laws that limit child labor, but the laws are often ignored. An estimated 11 million children work in Pakistan's factories.
NOTE: This photo essay is from TIME for Kids magazine, April 1, 2005.

Bangladesh On the outskirts of Dhaka, children heat and mix rubber in a barrel at a balloon factory. Thousands of kids in Bangladesh are forced to work to help earn money for their struggling families.

Kenya A young boy picks coffee beans at the Misarara Estate Coffee Plantation. The boy works with plants laden with pesticides. About four million Kenyan children are forced to work in hard, often dangerous jobs.

Nepal
A boy works in a tea stall in a small village in Nepal's Rukum District. Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries, forcing huge numbers of children to do hard labor. For a majority of children in Nepal, education is a luxury.

Mexico
A girl threads tobacco strings in the tobacco fields of Nayarit, Mexico. Many children working in the fields end up dropping out of school. In the surrounding communities of Nayarit, 86 percent of children do not go to school.

Ivory Coast, Africa A boy in Tortiya looks for diamond stones in a sifter. Many children laboring in Africa work for more than 12 hours without breaks. They are often separated from their families.

Afghanistan Sakina, 9, and Javed, 6, work on a carpet loom at a small workshop in Kabul. Afghanistan's deep poverty forces many children to work in adult jobs.

Iraq
A young boy stacks bricks in the Iraqi town of Nahawan. There are more than 100 brick factories in Nahawan, located about 37 miles south of the capital city of Baghdad. Though kids work in the factories, there are no hospitals or schools nearby.

Rwanda Charles, 10, picks up leaves on a tea plantation in Byumba. In addition to being forced to work, children in Rwanda are also used as soldiers.

Texas Mariella, 10, cuts onions in a field in Eagle Pass. As many as 500,000 kids in the United States work on farms for little pay to help their families earn money. Many are forced to miss months of school at a time so they can work.

China A young Chinese boy sells newspapers to passing drivers and cyclists in the streets of Beijing. Millions of Chinese children work because their parents can not afford to send them to school.

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to UNICEF, there are an estimated 158 million children aged 5 to 14 in child labour worldwide, excluding child domestic labour

More rural than urban: 11.5% of all urban children; 20.7% of all rural children More boys than girls 11.7% of all girls work; 20.8% of the boys

2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Urban Rural

Asia (61%)
Africa (32%)
Africa America Europe Asia

Asia has most of the child workers (61%) while Africa has the highest incidence at 40%

2.2 million children or 60% are in hazardous work situations, consisting of physical difficulties and chemical exposures. 30% are in permanent work

exhaustion (63.3%) stress (55%), physical burden (47%) boredom (52%) 8% have no day off 17% consider their work as risky &dangerous.

24% or 869,199 working children have experienced at least one workrelated injury or illness. These range from cuts and wounds, abrasions to illness requiring hospital care.

70% of working children combine school and work. 600,000 no longer attend school. Those who continue school face many difficulties:

low grades (41.2%) absenteeism (25.3%), tardiness (26%)

Many tend to be chronic drop-outs.

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of consumption in the family Lack of returns to schooling Low quality or non-existent schools Better outcomes??

In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million. During the last year, the Federal Bureau of Statistics released the results of its survey funded by ILOs IPEC. The findings were that 3.8 million children age group of 5-14 years are working in Pakistan out of total 40 million children in this age group fifty percent of these economically active children are in age group of 5 to 9 years. Even out of these 3.8 million economically active children, 2.7 million were claimed to be working in the agriculture sector. 73% of them were said to be boys

30% of our countrys total population is leading life below the poverty-line, in which the people are deprived of basic necessities of life like clothing, shelter, food, education and medication, the children of these people will be forced to become Labourers' or workers in order to survive. Our people are not aware of the importance of education. Class-based education system is another reason for increasing child Labour as a result, child Labour is increase in rural areas. The government has not put its laws into practice to stop child Labour in our country thats why child labour is increasing day by day.

The children are working as a labour in school going age for the survival of there families and to full fill the basic necessities. People dont know the importance of education. Thats why most of children remain illiterate.

Awareness must be raised and parents should pay attention to the education of their children. Child Labour Laws should be strictly put into practice

If we want success then we have to act upon these principles and then our country can easily get rid of this problem. We have to distribute the education free of coast, give flame to the candle of education and distribute the light of knowledge among the people as our Holy prophet (PBUH) also says that get knowledge and distribute among others.

Thank you