Definitions for child labour
child labour

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1. Child labour

   Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations. Legislations across the world prohibit child labour. These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, supervised training, certain categories of work such as those by Amish children, and others. Child labour was employed to varying extents through most of history. Before 1940, numerous children aged 5–14 worked in Europe, the United States and various colonies of European powers. These children worked in agriculture, home-based assembly operations, factories, mining and in services such as newsies. Some worked night shifts lasting 12 hours. With the rise of household income, availability of schools and passage of child labour laws, the incidence rates of child labour fell. In developing countries, with high poverty and poor schooling opportunities, child labour is still prevalent. In 2010, sub-saharan Africa had the highest incidence rates of child labour, with several African nations witnessing over 50 percent of children aged 5–14 working. Worldwide agriculture is the largest employer of child labour. Vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal urban economy; children are predominantly employed by their parents, rather than factories. Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour.

How to pronounce child labour?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of child labour in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of child labour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of child labour in a Sentence

1. Ian Rodgers:

   For children ... being out of school for months or years, dealing with the acute tension and anxiety at home, as well as separation from friends and relatives, daily discrimination, child labour, early marriage, and living in insecure, poor parts of cities or towns, has a serious and profound impact on their mental and physical health.

2. Rene Castro-Salazar:

   You can have the most beautiful shoes in the world but if you don't check and they are produced with forced or child labour then you're damaging the society and the people, you should be sure that the brand you're buying is behaving responsibly in terms of the social and labour conditions.

3. Charlie Yaxley:

   We are reaching a potential breaking point in our programmes where if we don't receive further funding soon, many of our programmes and particularly our cash assistance programmes to internally displaced Yemenis may have to stop, we are seeing a growing number of families resorting to harmful coping mechanisms such as begging, child labour and marrying of children to survive.

4. Richard Scobey:

   Government and company programmes to reduce child labour have shown significant success, the challenge now is to scale up these interventions.

References

1. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=child labour