{"id":8642,"date":"2020-06-17T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2023-04-11T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T05:36:06","slug":"world-day-against-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-day-against-child-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"World Day against child labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-day-against-child-labour\/#World_Day_against_child_labour\" title=\"World Day against child labour\">World Day against child labour<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-day-against-child-labour\/#CONTEXT\" title=\"CONTEXT\">CONTEXT<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-day-against-child-labour\/#In_News-_Every_year_the_World_Day_against_Child_Labour_is_celebrated_on_June_12_with_an_objective_to_end_the_brutalities_of_child_labour_across_the_world\" title=\"In News-\u00a0Every year, the\u00a0World Day against Child Labour\u00a0is celebrated on\u00a0June 12\u00a0with an objective to end the brutalities of child labour across the world.\u00a0\">In News-\u00a0Every year, the\u00a0World Day against Child Labour\u00a0is celebrated on\u00a0June 12\u00a0with an objective to end the brutalities of child labour across the world.\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"World_Day_against_child_labour\"><\/span>World Day against child labour<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Relevance: G.S paper I: Society and social issues &amp; Sociology: Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:\u00a0Informal sector, child labour.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.hinditracklyrics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/World-Day-Against-Child-Labour-Protect-children.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"World Day Against Child Labour: Know What's The Theme This Year ...\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CONTEXT\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">CONTEXT<\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"In_News-_Every_year_the_World_Day_against_Child_Labour_is_celebrated_on_June_12_with_an_objective_to_end_the_brutalities_of_child_labour_across_the_world\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">In News-\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">Every year, the\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">World Day against Child Labour<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">\u00a0is celebrated on\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">June 12<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">\u00a0with an objective to end the brutalities of child labour across the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The theme this year is, \u201c<strong>COVID-19 \u2013 Protect children from child labour now, more than ever\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>About:<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite efforts from governments, different agencies and NGOs the condition of child labour remains abysmal throughout the globe.<\/li>\n<li>Nine out of ten children involved in labour work are in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. The percentage of\u00a0<strong>Child labour is the highest in low-income countries<\/strong>. According to the ILO,\u00a0<strong>Africa has the largest child labours<\/strong>\u00a0in the world accounting to one-fifth of child labour in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Background:<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched by the\u00a0<strong>International Labour Organization (ILO)<\/strong>\u00a0in 2002\u00a0 with the aim to have focussed attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and devise efforts needed to eliminate it completely.<\/li>\n<li>This day brings together governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society and people from around the world to\u00a0<strong>highlight the plight of child labourers<\/strong>\u00a0and the required course of action to address the issue. Child labour is often associated with prostitution and drug trafficking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>What is child labour?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>According to<strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">International Labour Organization (ILO)<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">,<\/span> the term \u2018child labour\u2019 is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.<\/li>\n<li>Bonded Labour is exploitation in which the child is forced to work as a payment of debt taken by his\/her parent and Urban Child Labour is where the street children who spend almost all of their life on street work as labourers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Causes:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.iasexpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/child-labour.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Child Labour in India: Causes, Consequences, Laws | UPSC Essay ...\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main causes are poverty, lack of education, lack of employment opportunities, rapid urbanization, improper implementation of laws, failure of Government schemes etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Consequences of Child labour:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The problem of Child labour could lead to a further set of problems like child slavery, child trafficking, Human rights violation, and most important roadblock of a nation\u2019s development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Provisions\u00a0 to eradicate child labour in India:<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act(1986)<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>prohibit the engagement of children in certain employments<\/strong>\u00a0and to regulate the conditions of work of children in certain other employments.<\/li>\n<li>Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016: The Amendment Act completely prohibits the employment of children below 14 years. This amendment also prohibits the employment of adolescents in the age group of 14 to 18 years in hazardous occupations and processes and regulates their working conditions where they are not prohibited.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Policy on Child Labour (1987)<\/strong>, with a focus more on the rehabilitation of children working in hazardous occupations and processes, rather than on prevention.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Right to Education Act 2009<\/strong>\u00a0has made it mandatory for the state to ensure that all children aged six to 14 years are in school and receive free education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>\u00a0Constitutional Provisions:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As per\u00a0<strong>Article 21(A) and Article 45<\/strong>, the child has the\u00a0<strong>Right to Education<\/strong>\u00a0i.e. the state shall provide compulsory and free education to the children of the age six to 14 years.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>Article 24,<\/strong>\u00a0there is a provision that a child below the\u00a0<strong>age of 14 years cannot be employed<\/strong>\u00a0in any mine, factory or hazardous workplace.<\/li>\n<li>As per\u00a0<strong>Article 39(f)<\/strong>, the child\u2019s youth and childhood are to be protected against moral and material abandonment and exploitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Other measures:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ratification of two fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), PENCIL scheme, Kailash Sathyarthi\u2019s campaigns and recently ILO and UNICEF are developing a simulation model to look at the impact of COVID-19 on child labour globally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Day against child labour Relevance: G.S paper I: Society and social issues &amp; Sociology: Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:\u00a0Informal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,7,13,114,116],"tags":[3498,3488,3499,2599,155,2063,3062,2675,3500,2970,3263,2679,1859,540,1391,392,390,3501,3497],"class_list":["post-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-i","category-society-and-social-issues","category-sociology-optional","category-sociology-optional-paper-ii","tag-child-labour","tag-child-slavery","tag-child-trafficking","tag-constitutional-provisions","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-g-s-paper-i","tag-government-schemes","tag-human-rights-violation","tag-industrialization","tag-informal-sector","tag-international-labour-organization","tag-poverty","tag-sociology","tag-triumph-ias","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc","tag-upsc","tag-urbanization-in-india","tag-world-day-against-child-labour"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13869,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/13869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}