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Speech About Child Labour

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SUBJECT AREA OF STUDY: Are laws not comprehensive enough to tackle child labour?
CENTRE NAME: DECCAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CENTRE NUMBER: IN725
CANDIDATE NAME: M.S.Aprameya
CANDIDATE NUMBER: 0043 There are a lot of poor people in this world who cannot afford to even buy themselves a meal. Due to this the children in the family are forced to work and earn money. Many businesses take advantage of this and hire children to work for them and make them do dangerous tasks. Statistics suggest that there are 317 million economically active children aged between 5 to 17, out of whom 218 million children are regarded as child labours.

Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work the deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. The practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations.
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After I did further research on my topic then I found out that child is very prominent in developing countries due to poverty. Then I found out why it's not very prominent in developing countries, I thought it's not very prominent because people there are provided with full facilities and not everyone is poor there but then I found out that child labour also exists in developed countries, I then looked into the laws on child in developed and developing countries and saw the differences. I couldn't find any differences and then I got to know that laws are the same but there is lack of action taken place for violation in developing countries and this was the difference. I then came up with new laws which could prevent child labour in developing and developed countries as the laws present now we're not effective according to me. So therefore I think comprehensive laws are not in place to prevent child

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