Practicability of Legal Provisions of Child Labour

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Practicability of Legal Provisions of Child Labour

Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6

Abstract

Child labour accounts for 22% of the workforce in Asia, 32% in Africa, 17% in Latin America, 1% in the US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations. The proportion of child labourers varies greatly among countries and even regions inside those countries. Africa has the highest percentage of children aged 5– 17 employed as child labour, and a total of over 65 million. Asia, with its larger population, has the largest number of children employed as child labour at about 114 million. Latin America and Caribbean region have lower overall population density, but at 14 million child labourers has high incidence rates too. Due to the increase of regulations and legal restrictions on child labour, there has been a 64 percent decline in child labour from 1993-2005 although this is a great decrease in the country of India, there is still high numbers of children working in the rural areas of India. With 85 percent of the child labour occurring in rural areas, and 15 percent occurring in urban areas, there are still substantial areas of concern in the country of India. RESEARCH PAPER ON PRACTICABILITY OFD LEGAL PROVISIONS OF CHILD LABOUR The constitution of India has made legal provisions for abolishing the menace of child labour . Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.1 many international organizations considered child labour as exploitative. Legislation across the world prohibits child labour.2 These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, certain categories of work such as those by child in house cores. There are many examples of child labour in history. Before 1940, numerous children aged 5–14 worked in Europe, the United States and various colonies of European powers were doing child labour3 These children mainly worked in agriculture, home-based assembly operations, factories, and mining and in services such as newsies. Some worked night shifts lasting 12 hours. With the rise of household income, availability of schools and passage of child labour laws, the incidence rates of child labour fell down in some developed countries..4 In developing countries, with high poverty and poor schooling opportunities, child labour is still prevalent. In 2010, sub-saharan Africa had the highest incidence rates of child labour, with several African nations witnessing over 50 percent of children aged 5–14 working. 5 Worldwide agriculture is the largest employer of child labour.[6] Vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal 7 Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour 8 Globally the incidence of child labour decreased from 25% to 10% between 1960 and 2003, according to the World Bank. [9] Nevertheless, the total number of child labourers remains high, with UNICEF and ILO acknowledging an estimated 168 million children aged 5–17 worldwide, were involved in child labour in 2013.According to nongovernmental survey that there are six crore child labour in India. 10 The following table depicts;

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Dr. Rajni Bala

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