Child labor phenomenon .. need economic solutions

Child labor phenomenon .. need economic solutions



07/04/2017 0:00

BAGHDAD - A mainstay emirate
represents a global phenomenon of child labor varies spread between countries and regions , according to the level of economic development of those countries, they also carry negative consequences for the working children in terms of physical and intellectual influence, and represents an important indicator of the decline in human development.
Poverty is one of the most important reasons that the children paid to enter the labor market and it has to be the adoption of programs to improve the performance of the poor and the activation of social protection networks for groups of
poor. Poverty Alleviation , Dr. Academic Muzaffar Hosni Ali between "morning", that through the studies and reports that have been found related to the phenomenon of child labor show that they almost agree on the methods and treatments that should be followed to reduce the phenomenon of child labor, and in this regard indicates inequality Development Report issued by the development assistance Committee that the best approach can be applied to the reduction of child labor is through mainly focus on poverty alleviation in the society and the large investment in education as well as with opportunities to improve women 's participation in economic development and the development of the private sector to increase the involvement of Founder S civil society in contributing to the development of solutions to this problem. It refers to working children: all children who work in various occupations and crafts aged 5, 18 and continued Hosni said , while you see a study by UNICEF that address the problem of child labor can be done by increasing educational opportunities in the community and provide support their parents services things of poor children who are removed from work back across to the study and strictly enforcing laws against employers who exploit children or encourage the exploitation and changing cultural values and social norms that allowed the economic exploitation of children. Support the family (economic morning) surveyed the conditions of children working and had a stop in the city of Kadhimiya industrial area and found the child Sajjad Haider works profession welding in one shop industrial zone at the age of 12 years after leaving school for several reasons , including the forced displacement suffered by his family during the events sectarianism, the direct reason behind his work is to support their family members , consisting of five members. Lawyer Saad Abdul - Jabbar said that the ILO issued Convention No. 5 in 1919 , which prohibits employment of children under the age of fourteen in the industrial establishments after that was adopted a large number of international conventions on the minimum allowable age for employment in a number of sectors and activities such as work maritime labor in the agricultural sector and the mining business and non - business industries. He said, most countries have ratified these conventions in one way or another, but the phenomenon of child labor in various economic activities continued to soar in many parts of the world, and prompted the ILO to the adoption of Convention No. 138 of 1973 for the minimum age for employment, it has been identified Convention , three reconstruction work which is 18 years for admission to hazardous works and 15 years for use in non - hazardous residual and construction of simple works. Saad said the agreement stipulated that all signatory states to define actions that are dangerous and those that are non - hazardous types, and became this agreement in force since 1976, and due to the continued expansion of the scope of the phenomenon of child labor in many regions of the world and the growing international interest in this area issued by the international Labor Organization in 1999 , Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child and acts under this Convention prohibits the use or operation of any child under the age of 18 in the business dangerous. Dr. academic Amr Hisham said the "morning", is Iraq from countries that have substantial economic resources , but the economic mismanagement of the country over the past decades has resulted in the widening of poverty, high unemployment and distort economic structures within the country, and was the main implications of these imbalances is the spread of the phenomenon of child labor and increasing to the extent that can be counted an urgent problem of economic and social rights and the hand of man. Business Risk It should be noted that most of the children working in Iraq are working in working conditions can be hazardous counted for them because of their age and the weakness of their physical and intellectual , whether their work in the agricultural sector or industrial construction or services or in the markets , as a practice sale of cigarettes or dye shoes . He stressed the need to prevent the government through the relevant laws and the practice of dangerous acts immediately and activate the preventive aspect of the early entry of children of the labor market and contribute to the elimination of child labor through the mobilization of national.

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