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.

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 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.   

Push, Pull, and Fusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel L. Einwohner ◽  
Reid J. Leamaster ◽  
Benjamin Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Politics And Education ◽  
The Military

Women’s activism has focused not only on state institutions, such as the military, electoral politics, and education, but also on religious institutions. At the same time, participation in organized religion has helped women develop organizational and leadership skills that they can then draw on for their activism, both in movements directed toward religious institutions and in other, non-religious movements. Further, religion provides cultural frames that can be used in making sense of activism and in recruiting others for various causes. This chapter presents an overview of research on women’s activism and religious institutions, with a focus on U.S. activism. It discusses research on the ways in which participation in religious institutions provides resources for women’s activism, including organizational skills and resonant framings. Finally, it notes how women’s activism may exist in tension with religious institutions and identities, but that these tensions may be addressed by what the authors call “fusion.”

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 Girl Child Safety using IoT Sensors and Tabu Search Optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 4563-4565
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Tabu Search ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Search Optimization ◽  
The People ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Female Children

“Smiling face of every girl child is presence of God”. In recent times there are lot of issues in security of female children that too especially under the age of 10. Hence forth to assure the safety of every girl child I propose a novel approach which ensures the safety of a kid. In recent times there are huge advancement and development in field of wireless networks. I assure safety of each girl child by a small wearable IoT sensor embedded with a GSM kit. IoT sensors monitor the pulse, heartbeat and pressure of the kid and using GSM I can assure the location of the kid. I fix upon a particular value in the sensor so that if there are any upnormal conditions as well as there is a change in the location of the kid there will be a message alert to the people and the nearby police location. The nearby location is traced by Tabu search optimization.

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