Stop Child Labour
Anti-Child Labour Day will be held on 12th June. Anti-Child Labour Day is observed on 12 June every years. The ILO - International Labour Organization, the UN body which regulates the world of work initiated this observance in the year 2002. Trafficking happens in nearly all countries of the world. As a result, more than 1.2 million children are living away from their homes and families with people who force them to work. The World Day Against Child Labour provides and opportunity to gain further support of individual governments and that of the ILO social partners, civil society and others, including schools, youth and woman's groups as well as the media, in the campaign against child labour.
Under international law, trafficking is a crime. Through coercion, deception, and the threat or use of violence, people are forced into a range of exploitative work. Where children are concerned, it makes no difference if they leave voluntarily or are coerced -- where there is movement of children in order to use them as unpaid, or minimally waged labour, there is trafficking.
Trafficking is not a single action rather, it is a series of events that takes place in the child's home community, at transit points and at final destinations. Whenever a child is relocated and exploited, it is trafficking. And those who contribute to it - recruiters, middlemen, document providers, transporters, corrupt officials, employers and service providers - are all traffickers.
A report by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, says there are as many as 60 million children working in India's agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors, it is estimated there are 12.6 million children in hazardous occupations. India also has the undesirable accolade of having the highest number of child labourers in the world under 14 years of age. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14.
Anti-Child Labour Day also called as World Day Against Child Labour.
