World Day against Child Labour: What is today's significance in history?

World Day against Child Labour: What is today's significance in history?

This year's theme focuses on the urgent need to protect children from under-age labour, especially in the world of COVID-19.

Though humans have become civilised and cultured compared to the last decade, the practice of child labour still exist. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are about 152 million children globally who are engaged in child labour, of which 72 million are in hazardous work.

As the world is kneeling under the grip of COVID-19, the children who are still working as labourers will have a hard time coping with the falling economy as employers will force these young children to work hard for longer hours in much hazardous situations and condiotions on very low wages.

The World Day against Child Labour is held every year on June 12 to foster the worldwide movement against child labour in any form. This year's theme focuses on the urgent need to protect children from under-age labour, especially in the world of Covid-19. This year's Child Labour Day focuses the impact of COVID-19 on under-aged working children.

A virtual campaign is being organised jointly with the Global March Against Child Labour and the International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture (IPCCLA).

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Coming to India, there are around 10 million child labourers, and in some of the rare cases these children are kept confined by their employers under harsh conditions. This World Day against Child Labour was first launched in 2002 by the United Nations to fight against child labour. According to UN's data, hundreds of millions of girls and boys throughout the world are involved in work that deprives them of receiving a rightful education, health, leisure and basic freedoms. Of these children, more than half are exposed to the worst forms of child labour. These worst forms of child labour include work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.

Let us fight against child labour and put in our little effort to stop and complelty abolish this practice.

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