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Against Child Labour

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There is no one country or region there is no child labour. June 12 is the "World Day Against Child Labour." Throughout the world, thousands of children are engaged hinder their education, development and future life of labour. This situation caused the child to cause intolerable violation of individual rights, persistent poverty, economic growth and equitable development suffered damage. The ILO convention on minimum age for employment Article 138 stressed the close relationship between education and the minimum age for employment. It sets the minimum working age is not less than 15 years to complete their education. Under this provision, most studies put people under age 15 are considered children. Would have access to education, health …show more content…

And the focus is on importance of quality education in addressing child labour. All countries and governments are urged to take action.
In Asia Pacific, region’s leaders and governments are to ensure effective implementation of laws in order to assure legal protections as to minimum age of workers, children involvement in hazardous work and child trafficking. They should also have policies and investment in teaching profession and free, compulsory education for children in need.
Religious communities through holistic approach can resolve the root causes of child labour. Society and media play an importance role in changing permissive attitude. Smarter consumers can demand products that do not use child labour. With International conventions, laws or policies, education strategies, society, religious bodies and all of us work together would able to ease the current situation of child labour.
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The parents should let their children to go to school. This is because, when the child is well educated, in future the child will have a better chance to improve the family economy condition. Besides, I may come out with a plan to educate the child on time management. If the children have a proper time management, they can go to school and work on the same time. I encourage the child to work in order to gain experience and contribute to their household income. Without the income, they may die of hunger. However, the child must find the job that suit to their age. Lastly, I will motivate the children by giving a lot of encouragement and positive thought. Hope they will not easily gave up on their education although the road to achieve the success is very tough. It will be very meaningful to me if I able to improve the child labour

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