CHILD LABOR

• Prevention
• Protection
• Rehabilitation

According to the Convention on the rights of the Child, Child Labor is:

• employing children below 15 years old in factories and industries where they are not directly under supervision of their parents. this jeopardizes their right to education, health and total well-being.
• Making children below 18 years work in hazardous occupations.
• Making children Work at night.
• Paying children less than adult workers;
• Using children as sexual workers - child prostitution
• Locking up children and forcing them to work - bonded labor. usually, children in bonded labor incur more debts because their employers charge them for shelter and food. there is a vicious circle where the children are forced to stay and keep working, which only forces them to incur more debt.

• Chemical Factories
• Mining
• Pyrotechnic Factories
• Deep-sea Fishing
• Transportation
• Commercial Plantations
• Construction Work
• Prostitution
• Quarrying

• High Incidence of Respiratory Diseases
• Poor Nutrition
• Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
• Exposure to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Stunted Intellectual and Physical Development
• Low Self-esteem
• Underdeveloped Moral and Intellectual Faculties.

• Prevention If child labor had a pusher, it ought to be poverty. Areas with high incidences of child labor always turn up to be poverty stricken. The issue becomes more complicated because parents ask their children to work. Sometimes, children themselves volunteer out of poverty.
• Protection Children who are already working must be released from child labor. In cases where releasing them is difficult, or takes time, action should be made to make their life more tolerable and less hazardous.
  But children working in extremely hazardous work, in bonded labor, or in prostitution are the priority of rescue operations.
  Records show that more than 200 young workers have so far been rescued from subhuman working conditions in factories, poultry and piggeries, and entertainment clubs.
  This is just a small portion of the estimated 2.8 million child victims of hazardous and exploitative labor.
• Rehabilitation After being rescued from child labor, the children - along with their families - must be given adequate services and facilities so that they will not revert to child labor. Projects in areas where families allow their children to go to work can also become a preventive measure against would-be victims of child labor.