World Day Against Child Labor 2024: 12 World Day Against Child Labour is observed across the world on June 15, Child labor has been going on for a long time, first time International Labor Organization proposes to celebrate World Day Against Child Labor (ILO) had given it by, Its purpose was to stop child labor, However, there has been no decrease in it in all these years, Still every 10 One of the children is a child laborer, who starts earning his living by working as a labourer from a very young age, This has a very bad effect on their education as well as health., Some countries have very high child labor rates,
What are the child labor statistics?,
2001 according to census data from5-14 in the age group 1.26 There are millions of working children, While the total child population 25.2 is crore2004-05 National Sample Survey Organisation in ,NSSO, According to the survey conducted by, Estimated number of working children 90.75 There are lakhs2011 according to the census of5-14 the number of working children under the age of 30 has decreased further 43.53 it has become a million, This shows that child labour has reduced due to the efforts of the government,
Which country has the most child labourers,
Child labour is punishable all over the world, Despite this, child labour is being carried out all over the world, Africa has the highest number of child labourers, in this country 7.21 Millions of children are trapped in child labor, While Asia,in the pacific 6.21 Millions of children are earning their livelihood by working as laborers, At the same time, the number of child labourers is not less even in America which is considered the most developed country of the world., More than one crore children are trapped in child labour here,
Child labour increases after lockdown
Year 2000 There was a steady decrease in the number of child labourers after, But after the lockdown, many families are trapped in poverty, After this, a significant increase in the number of child labourers has also been recorded., The responsibility of looking after the family has now fallen on the children of the house as well., This is the reason why even today 160 Millions of children are engaged in child labour, If we look at the rates in the world, one in every ten children is doing child labour,
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