Child Labour......A Roadmap
Children at their teens accompanying with an adult engaged in repairing and re-constructing a metal link road (State Highway, SH -15) - less than 40km from the state capital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. There are around 0.5 million children involved in child labour in the state of West Bengal alone.
CHILDREN IN INDIA 2012 - A Statistical Appraisal
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
Child labour poses a complicated and a multi-dimensional problem. The Census found an increase in the number of child labourers from 11.28 million in 1991 to 12.66 million in 2001 in India.
The major occupations engaging child labour are Pan, Bidi & Cigarettes (21%), Construction (17%), Domestic workers (15%) and Spinning & weaving (11%).
As per census 2001, Uttar Pradesh (15.22%) recorded the highest share of child labour in the country, followed by Andra Pradesh (10.76%), Rajasthan (9.97%), Bihar (8.82%), Madhya Pradesh (8.41%), and West Bengal (6.77%).
World Day Against Child Labour 12 June 2012:
Human Rights and Social Justice... Let's End Child Labour!
This year the World Day Against Child Labour will provide a spotlight on the right of all children to be protected from child labour and from other violations of fundamental human rights. In 2010 the international community adopted a Roadmap for achieving the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016, which stressed that child labour is an impediment to children’s rights and a barrier to development. World Day 2012 will highlight the work that needs to be done to make the roadmap a reality.
However the ILO’s most recent global estimate is that 215 million children worldwide are involved in child labour, with more than half this number involved in its worst forms. The children concerned should be at school being educated, and acquiring skills that prepare them for decent work as adults. By entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of this critical education and training that can help to lift them, their families and communities out of a cycle of poverty.
More: www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/wdacl/2012/lang--en/...
Images of Bengal, India
Child Labour......A Roadmap
Children at their teens accompanying with an adult engaged in repairing and re-constructing a metal link road (State Highway, SH -15) - less than 40km from the state capital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. There are around 0.5 million children involved in child labour in the state of West Bengal alone.
CHILDREN IN INDIA 2012 - A Statistical Appraisal
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
Child labour poses a complicated and a multi-dimensional problem. The Census found an increase in the number of child labourers from 11.28 million in 1991 to 12.66 million in 2001 in India.
The major occupations engaging child labour are Pan, Bidi & Cigarettes (21%), Construction (17%), Domestic workers (15%) and Spinning & weaving (11%).
As per census 2001, Uttar Pradesh (15.22%) recorded the highest share of child labour in the country, followed by Andra Pradesh (10.76%), Rajasthan (9.97%), Bihar (8.82%), Madhya Pradesh (8.41%), and West Bengal (6.77%).
World Day Against Child Labour 12 June 2012:
Human Rights and Social Justice... Let's End Child Labour!
This year the World Day Against Child Labour will provide a spotlight on the right of all children to be protected from child labour and from other violations of fundamental human rights. In 2010 the international community adopted a Roadmap for achieving the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016, which stressed that child labour is an impediment to children’s rights and a barrier to development. World Day 2012 will highlight the work that needs to be done to make the roadmap a reality.
However the ILO’s most recent global estimate is that 215 million children worldwide are involved in child labour, with more than half this number involved in its worst forms. The children concerned should be at school being educated, and acquiring skills that prepare them for decent work as adults. By entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of this critical education and training that can help to lift them, their families and communities out of a cycle of poverty.
More: www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/wdacl/2012/lang--en/...
Images of Bengal, India