It is just the matter of providing necessities and free education to all especially to children
ISLAMABAD: The 2013 global slavery index ranked Pakistan third after Mauritania and Haiti in the prevalence of child labour. Child labour is the employment of children and causing mental, physical, moral and social harm to them. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country, half of whom were under the age of ten. One of the main reasons for child labour is poverty: when people do not get their necessities they will find alternative ways to run their families.
People in the low economic bracket struggle in their daily lives because they usually don’t have enough to feed their families. Through child labour they can fulfill their family’s needs. It will create long lasting scars on the development of children, the scars that one cannot see but the kind that will stay with them forever.
As children are the future of Pakistan, it is necessary to take corrective actions to safeguard their future. It is just the matter of providing necessities and free education to all especially to children who come from low socio-economic group.
Kiran Fatima
Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2017.
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