We marked the World Day Against Child Labour on 12 June with the theme, Let’s act on our commitments: End child labour!
We marked the World Day Against Child Labour on 12 June with the theme, Let’s act on our commitments: End child labour!
The global estimates indicate that there are 160 million children engaged in child labour. In India, there are 10.1 million working children between the age of 5-14. These children do not go to school and have little or no time to play. A proper meal is a distant dream for them.
Thousands of children go missing as human traffickers respond to a surge in demand for cheap labour. Trafficked children are often subjected to violence, abuse and other human rights violations.
The worst forms of child labour like slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, forced recruitment of children and commercial sexual exploitation are strongly linked to poverty. Children belonging to poor families work in a variety of industries such as brick kilns, carpet weaving, domestic servitude, restaurants and tea stalls.
Together with partners, donors and supporters like you, VIHAAN works to prevent and respond to child labour by improving access to quality education, creating awareness about child trafficking, strengthening social protection and community empowerment to addressing harmful social norms that perpetuate child labour, and partnering with government to prevent violence, exploitation and abuse of children.
Every child deserves a childhood filled with laughter, love, and dreams, not exploitation and labour. Let us act and end child labour!