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Ban on child
labor at officials’ homes demanded
Peshawar: Rights activists have demanded a ban
on domestic child labor in the homes of government
officials. Speaking at a debate held here June
12 in connection with the World Day against Child
Labor, they held lack of will on the part of the
government, impractical policies and lack of awareness
among parents responsible for growing child labor
in the country.
There were 36 worst forms of child labor and
the government had been unable to eradicate them,
said Jehanzeb Khan, regional manager of the Society
for the Protection of the Rights of the Child
(Sparc). He said the government had signed the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, but according
to the United Nations Children’s Fund’s
data, millions of children were still involved
in child labor. The worst forms of child labor
include work in mechanical workshops, construction,
waste disposal and chemical sector. The menace
was on the rise because of poverty and parents
often used their children as a source of earning,
he said.
In the face of growing population, government
and non-governmental organizations should work
in collaboration to eradicate at least the worst
form of child labor, the participants said.
Despite rampant child labor in the NWFP, the
legal service unit of the provincial labor department
had taken up only eight cases of bonded labor,
a participant said. Only one district vigilance
committee had been formed in Mardan under the
Abolition of Bonded Labor Act, 1992, and no such
body existed in the 23 other districts of the
province, said a participant.
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