WHERE IS THEIR RIGHT ???

Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work which denied their childhood. This thing has been bothering the children to get the education they were entitled. This is also one of the forms of abuse against children both physically and mentally. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations. Law around the world prohibit child labor. Poverty is one of the things that cause this thing happen. In developing countries, the high level of poverty makes them unable to meet the cost of education.

International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labor. For impoverished households, income from a child's work is usually crucial for his or her own survival or for that of the household.

In many cultures, particular where informal economy and small household businesses thrive, the cultural tradition is that children follow in their parents' footsteps, child labor then is a means to learn and practice that trade from a very early age. Similarly, in many cultures the education of girls is less valued or girls are simply not expected to need formal schooling, and these girls pushed into child labor such as providing domestic services.

The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, which was subsequently ratified by 193 countries. Article 32 of the convention addressed child labor, as follows:

"Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development"

Under Article 1 of the 1990 Convention, a child is defined as "every human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." Article 28 of this Convention requires States to, "make primary education compulsory and available free to all." Three countries that have not ratified the 1990 Convention are Somalia, South Sudan and the United States.

Young girl working on a loom in Aït Benhaddou, Morocco in May 2008.

Nepali girls working in brick factory.

Child maid servant in India. Child domestic workers are common in India.

Child labor in a coal mine, United States, c. 1912. Photograph by Lewis Hine.

Children engaged in diamond mining in Sierra Leone.