Child labor is a contested issue and global phenomenon that affected mostly Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. According to International Labor Organization (ILO-IPEC) (1996-2016a), a United Nations agency, the number of children in labour globally has declined since 2000 from 246 million to 168 million children; and although declining, around 85 million are still working in hazardous environment. However, the Asia-Pacific region has the largest number of child workers in the world and represents
Child labor in developing countries Introduction In today’s world the exploiting child as workers remains a concerning topic especially in developing countries where the protection of human rights is not regarded as being particularly strong. Human rights application result to be a controversial matter including when delicate issues as child labor and its implications on children’s development are concerned, as it consists in two opposing viewpoints on whether child labor should be legalized or not
independent of and even prior to his participation in the society (Dr.V.K.Anand 2001). There are the rights, which entitled mankind a decent, civilized life in which inherent dignity of each human being will receive respect and protection (A.N.Sen 2002). Child is a nation’s assets and future resource of manpower to a nation. Children need special protection because of their tender age and physique, mental immaturity and incapacity to look after themselves. Various Laws have been made for the protection and
best care and b) Children being most vulnerable, they are to be protected from all sorts of exploitation, physical, mental and moral. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India, made a starking observation which read as: “Child of today cannot develop to be a responsible and productive member of tomorrow’s society unless an environment which is conducive to his
Conflict theory is a figure of thoughts including Marxism. Marxism claims that economics determines the nature of society; its politics, religion, law, and culture. Unlike the idea of functionalism, there is a conflict of interest. Society have different goals and purposes. They will use whatever means to gain this, even to the disadvantage of others in their society in order to reach their specific goals (Kendall 24). The impression of Marxism supports the theory that those with more power and money
legislations and recent improvements in the gender gap in employment, no country has achieved parity in this area and a significant level of inequality still prevails in many countries . The OECD Secretary-General, Mr Angel Gurria highlighted the importance of
Child Development : The Effect of Parenting and Environmental Relations Parents are entrusted with the overarching task to prepare their children for the physical, psychosocial, and economic conditions in which that generation will eventually live and hopefully flourish. Understanding its highly subjective nature and variability, how do the factors of social class, ethnic identity, and culture shape parenting? What are the functions of parents’ relationship with the child and with each other (Bornstein
there. CONCLUSION Overall the rural camp was a fantastic experience, it showed us the multiple realities that exist in India and the manifestation of these realities in terms of living conditions, availability, accessibility. it taught me the importance of labour, respect for women who still go the farms for using toilets, the traditional and community based living in the village as well the hardships of the people, the struggles for visibility and of carrying the tradition but opposing the oppression
dedication of young girls as Devadasi and Jogin. The petition brought out the fact that poor parents on account of acute poverty were selling their children and young girls hoping that their children would be engaged only in household duties or manual labour. However, pimps - brokers - keepers either purchase or kidnap them by deceitful means and unjustly and forcibly inveigle them into 'flesh trade'.
sex, and now you see the result you?re going to cry? Try to push and yell quietly.? - a resident heard abusing a woman in labour ward. ?A nurse was attending to me, she told me I had to help, to push. At that moment I couldn?t. I was yelling. The nurse gave me a slap. That made me very ashamed, she treated me as a bad girl.? - a woman?s report of how she was treated in labour room. (D'Oliveira, Diniz, & Schraiber, 2002) ?She delivered on the floor as the nurse was still shouting, she continued