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INDIVIUAL REPORT
Can child labour benefit children?

Children are future citizens of a nation and their adequate development

is utmost priority of the country. Unfortunately, child labor engulfs
children across the world. The world is home to 1.2 billion individuals
aged 10-19 years. The average percentage of poor families is 8.6 who
are earning $1.90 or less per day, they are total of 13 percent of world’s
population who are children and are extremely poor. These children
must work day and night in order to feed their families, the working of
the children to feed their family is child labor. Child labor brings many
problems not only for the child but for the reputation of the country and
for the society. The first problem that child labor is the harm of their
education and that damages are literacy rate. This is a factor that not
only effecting the child or his family but all the society. Because of child
labor there are high chances of unemployment.

Literacy is an important part of a country. Obtaining education is the

right of every child, if children will keep working then they can’t get
good education and it will cause harm to our society. A child can hardly
earn money for his own survival and he must look after his whole family,
the if increase in child labor is eventually an increase in poverty. This
way children can’t even earn more, and they will stay away from their
education. If a child has taken a good education, then he can earn more
money the tat least 10 children who are doing struggling in child labor.

There will be bad consequences as less many so more crime. If a child

must feed his whole family, then he must accommodate money whether
one way or another, so some children start stealing and doing robbery
in order to feed their families. There that children and their families get
malnutrition. Malnutrition is to not get enough food for your body and
people suffer anxiety and fatigue. This can also lead dead at a certain
point.

World wide there re tries to stop child labor. The Millennium

Development Goals, adopted in 2000 and aimed at tackling some of the
key causes of poverty, have had a positive impact on child labor.
Improvements in access to education have meant more children leaving
child labor to go to school. Globally, the number of children in child labor
has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million
children.

Those involved in hazardous child labor have fallen from 171 million in
2000, to 85 million.

The focus on girls’ education has also contributed. Child labor among
girls has fallen by 40% since 2000, compared to 25% for boys.

There is child labor done in countries like Pakistan. In 2018, Pakistan

made a moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms
of child labor. All four provincial governments started conducting child
labor surveys, which will constitute the first nationwide child labor
survey since 1996. The federal government also passed the Prevention
of Trafficking in Persons Act and convicted its first child pornography
case. In addition, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh provinces
each adopted new policies that will address child labor. However,
children in Pakistan engage in the worst forms of child labor, including
in forced domestic work and in bonded labor in brick kilns and
agriculture. Although the federal and provincial governments made
meaningful efforts in all relevant areas during the reporting period, the
federal government and Baluchistan Province have not established a
minimum age for work or hazardous work in compliance with
international standards. In addition, provincial governments do not have
the resources necessary to adequately enforce laws prohibiting child
labor.
Child labor no only disturb literacy rate, it also brings unemployment to
a society as there are less educated young people so there are less
skilled men and so there is unemployment. Unemployment is a term
referring to individuals who are employable and seeking a job but are
unable to find a job. Furthermore, it is those people in the workforce or
pool of people who are available for work that does not have an
appropriate job. Usually measured by the unemployment rate, which is
dividing the number of unemployed people by the total number of people
in the workforce, unemployment serves as one of the indicators of an
economy’s status.

As there will be unemployment on the jobs which are on a higher level

so it will bring a barrier in the growth of the businesses. There will be
less people to handle technical jobs. The GDP rate will fall, and import
will be more then exports, there will be high import bills.

The consequence will be to call students or employees could be called

from overseas but there is a limiting factor as it will cause a huge sum
of money and overseas employee will demand a higher salary then a
local one. There will be high sums paid on the tuition fee of the students.
A country will also suffer inflation as it will have to pay its import bills.

There are many works has been done to stop unemployment globally.
Global unemployment has been tried to stop many times by UN has
started to develop help to stop unemployment for
example: International Labor Organization makes a report in which
they talk and raise awareness on the matter of unemployment. GENEVA
(ILO News) – Poor quality employment is the main issue for global labor
markets, with millions of people forced to accept inadequate working
conditions, according to a new report from the International Labor
Organization (ILO).
New data gathered for the World Employment and Social Outlook:
Trends 2019 (WESO) show that a majority of the 3.3 billion people
employed globally in 2018 had inadequate economic security, material
well-being and equality of opportunity. What’s more, progress in
reducing unemployment globally is not being reflected in improvement
in the quantity of work. The report, published by the ILO, cites the
persistence of a number of major deficits in decent work, warning that,
at the current rate of progress, attaining the goal of decent work for all,
as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG
8 , seems unrealistic for many countries.

Unemployment is also a been highlighted by countries and many works

has been done on it. For example, NGO they have been quite a help for
the people of the country. Since the mid1970s, there was a new trend
in institution building and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
appeared as the third sector in achieving decentralized, sustainable and
equitable development (Fowler, 1992). It has now been recognized that
NGOs with their flexibility, responsiveness and adaptability can also
play important roles in the improvement of employment in the society
(Kurten 1987; Clark 1991). As NGOs gained expertise and experience
over the years, their roles have expanded and changed. Several reasons
can be held accountable for the emergence and proliferation of NGOs
since the 1970s. Among the leading ones are ‘market’ and ‘government’
failure in African, European, Asian and Latin American countries
(Hossain and Malika 1996). Many NGOs like CARE India, Child Rights
and You, Global March Against Child Labor, etc., have been working to
eradicate child labor in India. The child labor can be stopped when
knowledge is translated into legislation and action, moving good
intention and ideas into protecting the health of the children. The
endurance of young children is higher, and they cannot protest
discrimination. Focusing on grassroots strategies to mobilize
communities against child labor and reintegration of child workers into
their homes and schools has proven crucial to breaking the cycle of
child labor. A multidisciplinary approach involving specialists with
medical, psychological and socio-anthropological level is needed to
curb this evil.

There are many people working on child labor and poverty as mention
by Yekaterina Chzhen is a social and economic policy specialist
at UNICEF tells us about poverty in her blog. She says that the way
countries define poverty is going to matter for their probability of achieving
Sustainable Development Goal 1. It calls for reducing at least by half the
proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its
dimensions according to national definitions by 2030. This means that national
governments can establish the standards against which they will be
measuring progress in just over a decade. For example, if we measure
multidimensional poverty in a way that the starting rate is too high, we
will struggle to halve it. Define it at too low a level, and further progress
may be harder to achieve.

I have really studied very much for this report and had very much
research. I learned very much about the child labor issue and UNICEF
had quite been useful for my report.