English Past Paper Child Labour

Child Labour

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage,or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal.[8] Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation . It is also the act of forcing men and women into slave positions for  an earning .Human trafficking mostly occur in places with high immigrant rates and slavery-like countries. Examples are china, Bangladesh ,Nepal and Uganda .

Across recent years the criminal industry of Human trafficking has reached 27 million people abused by this cause by various forms of slavery but I’m going to talk to you all about Child Labour.

Child labor is the enslavement (i.e., sale, trafficking) of anyone under the age of 18. The definition includes the use of children in armed conflict, prostitution and illegal activities such as drug trafficking. Lastly, any work deemed to be harmful to the health, safety or morals of a child is considered to be child labor. Forced child labor generates $150.2 billion per year in illegal profits globally.

Through such exploitation little children with no means of survival are put onto the streets at a very young  age to sell items instead of being in school.As we speak now ,more than 4 cases of child labour are occurring now.

Child Labour reports have found three causes of child labour:

Primary causes

poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labour.For impoverished households, income from a child's work is usually crucial for his or her own survival or for that of the household.

Cultural causes