Child Labor Exploitation

Register to read the introduction… At the age of four, the boy was sold as an indentured servant to a factory owner for the equivalent of sixteen dollars. Iqbal’s parents were forced to sell him in order to feed and clothe the rest of their family, a situation that is extremely common in the poor villages of India. At the factory, Iqbal would begin work around 6 a.m., working 14- hour days with one 30- minute break for lunch. The conditions in the factory were very poor with very little lighting and no fresh air. The children that worked there were not allowed to speak and were often beaten if they broke the rules or made mistakes. When Iqbal turned 10 years old, he was severely beaten by the factory owner, and decided to escape and report it to the police. When the police looked the other way, he was sent back to the factory and was chained to his loom. Some time later, Iqbal escaped and went to a meeting of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, an organization whose goal was to free Pakistan’s bonded workers. With help from the organization, he could be set free and started to attend a school. Child labor is a violation of the “Human Rights Document” in article 26, which states: Everyone has the right to an education. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall …show more content…
The major attempted solutions have consisted of reducing poverty, educating children, providing support services for working children, raising public awareness, legislating and regulating child labor, and promoting elimination of abusive child labor through international measures. These approaches are, of course, not equally exclusive and are adopted in various combinations in child labor reduction strategies. Not all of these have been adopted, however, the legislation and regulation are major concerns of many governments. Other measures aimed at the direct elimination of child labor include, rescue by NGOs of children in the worst conditions and the establishment of motivational camps in which children leave work and attend informal education and recreational facilities on a residential basis for a period of