[Mohamed Ibrahim Shady]

شكر الله لك , وهذه مساهمة على نفس النسق
Child labour
Child labour is often the upshot of poverty, unemployment and illiteracy. Unless the menace of child labour is eradicated, the country's progress in near future is bound to be poor. The children who languish in slavery in dimly lit, cramped spaces in factories, houses, toiling 16 hours a day, getting little pay and more abuse are crying for rescue. Although civilization has entered the 21st century, child labour continues as the worst form of slavery in society.
A labourer in an industrial set up is one who sells his/her labour to an employer in lieu of wages under certain work-related conditions such as legal safeguards, work safety, bargaining power, and right to special amenities. But children have no identity as workers. They have just to obey the master and remain at his mercy. There are not minimum wages or working hours for them. Vulnerable to physical and mental exploitation, the children are abused and beaten and more often than not such abuses go unnoticed.
It is generally believed that poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and the population explosion are the major reasons allowing child labour to thrive. Some think that so long as poverty exists child labour cannot be removed. But the truth is that child servitude is the root cause of the other maladies. Adults lose much because an employer seeks cheap child labour. Thus, poverty can never be removed unless child labour is strictly abolished.