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The International
Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children ages 5-17 are engaged
in child labor (ILO, Accelerating action against child labor, 2010).
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An estimated 12
percent of children in India ages 5-14 are engaged in child labor activities,
including carpet production (UNICEF, State of the World’s Children 2010).
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Approximately six out
of ten slaves in the world are bonded laborers in South Asia (Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking:
Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, 2008)
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It would cost $760
billion over a 20-year period to end child labor. The estimated benefit in
terms of better education and health is about six times that—over $4 trillion
in economies where child laborers are found (ILO,Investing in Every
Child, 2003).
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Some children are
forced to weave up to 18 hours a day, often never leaving the confines of the
factory or loom shed.
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Children trafficked
into one form of labor may be later sold into another, as with girls from rural
Nepal, who are recruited to work in carpet factories but are then trafficked
into the sex industry over the border in India (ILO/IPEC, Helping Hands
or Shackled Lives? Understanding Child Domestic Labor and Responses to It, 2004).
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Experts estimate that
child labor on South Asia’s carpet looms has dropped from 1 million to 250,000
since the launch of Good Weave in 1995.
There are also survey on Global Child laboring which can be describe as below:
- 13,40,000 children below 5 die in a year, that is 3671 under 5 child deaths per day
- Nearly half of all child deaths under 5 in India are attributed to under nutrition
- 1 in every 11 children in India is working, when they should be at school
- More than half (56%) of the under 5 deaths occur within the first 28 days of life, we work to prevent these lives
- India accounts for more than 3 out of 10 stunted children in the world
- 47% of the women in India are married when they are a child (before the age of 18), and 30% bear a child when they are a child (adolescent mothers)
- 17.7 million children and adolescents are out of school in India, this is 14% of world's population of children out of school
- 20% of grade 2 children in India cannot recognize numbers 1-9; 53% of children drop out of school at elementary level
- 49.5% of grade 5 children cannot do subtraction and 55% of grade 8 children cannot solve 3 digits by 1 digit division problem; 51.09% of grade 5 children cannot read grade 2 English and 25.4% children of grade 8 cannot read grade 2 text.
- Thus child labor is not the problem of any one country or problem of any one era. It was started form much earlier when the master-slave relation was established. It is like a Global problem which has no end it is just running and still running..
