Child labour.

Child labour:
it is often defined as work deprives children of their childhood their potential and their dignity that is injurious to mental and physical development.

Child labour is a global issue now a days.It is more common in Pakistan. Pakistan has passed laws in an attempt to limit child labour and indentured servitude but those laws were universally ignored .About 11million children aged 5-14 keep the country's factories operating often working in brutual and sqaulid conditions .
Child labour is considered as the most common problem in Asia . The main causes are poverty ,illeteracy ,increase in population ,less resources etc .
Children are in the following areas these days
-Agriculture areas
-industrial sites
-House maid
-In mills etc
About 50/children are working in agricukture areas acording to new research
Different efforts are made to reduce child labour i.e NGO group against child labour have been raising awareness to exploitation of children in pakistan.

Written by:
Subayyal iftikhar
Gulab Devi Institute Of Physiotherapy.