Work that exceed minimum number of hours, depending on the age of child and on the type of work.

Such work is considered harmful to the child

Ages 5-11: At least one hour of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.

Ages 12-14: At least 14 hours of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.

Ages 15-17: At least 43 hours of economic or domestic work per week.

Poverty and unemployment levels are high.

National Laws Often Include Exemptions

Access to compulsory, free education is limited

Laws and enforcement are often inadequate.

Existing laws or codes of conduct are often violated.

POVERTY

Poor children and their families may rely upon child labor in order to improve their chances of attaining basic necessities. More than one-fourth of the world's people live in extreme poverty, according to 2005 U.N. statistics
EDUCATION

In 2006, approximately 75 million children were not in school, limiting future opportunities for the children and their communities.
LAWS

Even when laws or codes of conduct exist, they are often violated. For example, the manufacture and export of products often involves multiple layers of production and outsourcing, which can make it difficult to monitor who is performing labor

LAWS ENFORCEMENT Child labor laws around the world are often not enforced or include exemptions that allow for child labor to persist in certain sectors, such as agriculture or domestic work. Even in countries where strong child labor laws exist,

RIGHTS
Workers abilities to organize unions affect the international protection of core labor standards, including child labor. For example, in 2010, 5,000 workers were fired and 2,500 workers were arrested as a result of their union activity
GLOBAL ECONOMY As multinational corporations expand across borders, countries often compete for jobs, investment, and industry. This competition sometimes slows child labor reform by encouraging corporations and governments to seek low labor costs by resisting international standard.

Child Labour in India

Child Labour in The Agricultural Sector :
According to a recent ILO report about 80% child labourers in India are employed in the agriculture sector. The children are generally sold to the rich moneylenders to whom borrowed money cannot be returned.
Child Labour in Matchbox Factories : Of the 2,00,000 labour force in the matchbox industry, experts claim that 35% are children below the age of 14. They are made to work over twelve hours a day, beginning work at around 4 am, everyday.

Children Employed At Glass Factories : According to recent estimates almost 60,000 children are employed in the glass and bangle industry and are made to work under extreme conditions of excessive heat.

The future of a community is in the well being of its children. The above fact is beautifully expressed by Wordsworth in his famous lines child is father of the man. So it becomes imperative for the health of a nation to protect its children from premature labor which is hazardous to their mental, physical, educational and spiritual development needs Projects related with human resource development, dedicated to the child welfare issues must be given top priority by the central and state governments to stop the menace of child labor..

The development needs of growing children can only be provided for, by stopping the onerous practice of child labor in organized and non organized sectors with utmost sincerity. It is urgently required to save children from the murderous clutches of social injustice and educational deprivation, and ensure that they are given opportunities for healthy, normal and happy growth

Concerned about the future of its children India has implemented a country- wide ban recently, on children below fourteen working in the hospitality sector and as domestics

Article 21 A

Article 39

Right to Education
The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of 6 to 14 years in such manner as the State, by law,

The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards

securing:(e) that the health and strength of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that

may determine.
Article 24 Prohibition of employment of children in factories, etc. No child below the age fourteen years shall be employed in work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.

citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter

avocations unsuited to their age or strength.

child labour engaged in hazardous occupations & processes has been conducted, children are to be withdrawn from these occupations & processes and then put into special

Focussing and convergence of general development programmes for benefiting children wherever possible, and

Project-based action plan of action for launching of projects for the welfare of working children in areas of high concentration of child labour.

The Scheme seeks to adopt a sequential approach with focus on rehabilitation of children working in hazardous occupations & processes in the first instance.