Child Labour, Education and Child Rights Among Cocoa Producers in Ghana

2004 ◽  
pp. 158-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Berlan
Keyword(s):  
Child Labour ◽  
Child Rights

Negated Agency, Silenced Voice, and the Continued Negotiations in the Spaces Within

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-339
Author(s):  
Khushboo Jain
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
The State ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Child Agency

Childhood is believed to be a stage that requires protection, both in national and international policymaking realms. This essay looks at a few such intersections where lives of certain ‘categories’ of children have been gravely affected by laws meant for their protection and rehabilitation. Through detailed exploration of the making of the anti-child labour law and the category of railway children, this essay argues that repeatedly rehashed state plans of action to address child labour or children in railways situation are dysfunctional because they have abysmally failed to address it with the depth, diversity, and comprehensiveness required. This essay, touching upon case studies of child labour rescue raids conducted by the state in collaboration with NGOs and ethnographic accounts of children who have been rescued, and children who have defined their life and work in their own ways, attempts to explore how ‘childhood’ and ‘child agency’ have become a contested site between children, the existing state and NGO/legal activist/child rights groups discourses on child protection.

scholarly journals Shattered Dreams and Stolen Childhood: A Study of Child Labour and Child Rights in Restaurants and Hotels of Pokhara, Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Prakash Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Heavy Workload

Nepal is committed to end child labour expressed by the ratification of ILO convention and its national plan of action for children and Master Plan to end child labour. However, the wicked problem’ of child labour is increasing at an alarming rate in urban areas. New hotels and restaurants have been opened and along with it a new way of child labour exploitation has emerged in urban centres. Most of the workers in restaurants/hotels of Pokhara are children. The employers of such business prefer child labour as they are cheap and can be easily exploited. This study attempts to determine the extent to which child labour constitutes a violation of child rights. Pedestal on theories of exploitation and structural-functionalism the study result reveals that condition of child labourers is disgraceful with a shattered dream and stolen childhood—a result of family dysfunction and child rights violation by employer that has thwarted the opportunities for healthy adulthood under a vicious cycle of deprivation, abuse and exploitation. Amid noxious relationship between child labourer and the employer, child labourers face violence and sexual harassment by employer, senior staff and customers. Heavy workload, trouncing and dragging by hair and ill-treatment are the common violence faced by child labourer. Most of the employers are ignorant of child rights. It is a paradox that child labourer is valuable for employer but the life of child labourer is worthless. Most of the child labourers are willing to rehabilitate.  

scholarly journals hermeneutical injustice and outsourced domestic girl-child labour

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 01-24
Author(s):  
Dominic Effiong Abakedi ◽  
Emmanuel Kelechi Iwuagwu ◽  
Mary Julius Egbai
Keyword(s):  
Child Labour ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Female Children ◽  
Legislative Processes ◽  
Miranda Fricker

We observed that despite international declarations on child-rights, outsourced domestic girl-child labour still persists. Raising the question whether outsourced domestic girl-child labour constitutes hermeneutical injustice, we respond affirmatively. Relying on two indigenous victimology-narratives that are newspaper reports, we expose some of the horrors that the victims of outsourced domestic girl-child labour suffer. Comparing these reports with other victimology-narratives of hermeneutical injustice as reported by Miranda Fricker and Hilkje Hänel, we argue that the victims of outsourced domestic girl-child labour suffer a hermeneutical gap and hermeneutical interference; and that the perpetuators of this practice, help to foster what we call ‘hermeneutical obstruction’. We recommend different counteracting measures such as: a radical feminization of educational curricula, which will allow for the introduction of the relevant hermeneutical resources that female children need in making sense of their experiences, into the classrooms and other places of learning; establishing feminist liberation agencies in all schools, religious institutions and hospitals, as ways of increasing the level of awareness about the rights of the  girl-child in children and adults; feminizing legislation and legislative processes, to allow for the enactment of laws to protect the rights of the girl-child; and campaigning for a more rigorous enforcement of child-rights laws.

scholarly journals GENDER BASED ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF CHILD LABOURERS LIVING IN KARACHI

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Nasreen Aslam Shah ◽  
Rashid Iqbal ◽  
Aamir Ul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study aims to draw a gender based analysis of social and economic conditions of child labourers living in Karachi. Globally the issue of child labour is growing constantly and children are engaged in all sorts of hazardous forms of work, like adults, which deprives them from education, healthy life, child hood activities and balanced diet. In Pakistan the child labour is very common in all economic sectors, but it is mainly found in the informal sector and the household sector. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques of non-probability sampling are used to collect data through structured questionnaire from 900 respondents from eighteen (18) administrative districts of Karachi, which is based upon primarily quantitative and narrowly focused qualitative research methods. The findings of the study reveal that mostly children between the ages of 12 to 14 years are commonly inducted in different economic sectors. This clear violation of child rights makes them vulnerable to health and safety threats and putting them forcefully in hazardous occupations to earn bread and butter for their family by compromising their education.   

Child Labour Laws in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beauty Vambe ◽  
Amos Saurombe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Child Work ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Forced Labour

This article reports on a study that investigated the effectiveness of child labour laws intended to promote child rights and the protection of children from unfair and forced labour. Legal scholars distinguish between child work and child labour: forced child labour manifests itself in abusing children sexually, forcing children to work on farms, and compromising children’s rights to education. Although South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia have laws in place to protect children from child labour, the abuse of children continues in these countries. Furthermore, although these three countries are signatories to conventions of the International Labour Organisation that seek to eliminate child labour, they have been unable to stem the tide of child labour. This article argues that there is a need for the three countries to work closely together to implement policies that reverse or fight against child labour. The researchers used a qualitative methodology to interpret the variations in the application of child labour laws. They found there are no harmonised laws to deal with child labour in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Hence, this article recommends that an independent supranational organisation be established in Southern Africa to monitor, evaluate, and implement progressive laws to eradicate child labour in line with internationally recognised best practices as set out in child labour laws.

scholarly journals INNOCENCE AT THREAT: A STUDY OF CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 225-228
Author(s):  
Priscilla Bolivia Fernandes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Poor Child ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Adult Worker ◽  
Human Rights Violation

In this article I have found out that, how a child labour is the exclusionary form of social practice in our society, for which the child is too young to deal with such exploitation intelligently. I revealed how their innocence is in threat with the presence of various forms exploitation or human rights violation due to child labour.Besides this I also revealed about the presence of lack of awareness in the society about the child rights which allows them to employ the poor child as they find them as cheap labourand hence they can be paid half of what an adult worker would need to be paid.

scholarly journals Origins of child rights governance: The example of early child labour legislation in the United States and Brazil

Childhood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-303
Author(s):  
Nina Schneider
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Early Child ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Fair Labor Standards Act ◽  
Labour Legislation

Adopting a historical and comparative perspective and moving beyond the North–South divide in the historical literature on child rights governance, this article contrasts the first enduring national anti-child labour laws in the United States and Brazil – the US Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Brazilian Minor’s Code ( Código de Menores) of 1927. It identifies key political structures that conditioned these laws, and examines how these influenced the timing, scope, clustering, and impact of early child rights legislation.

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