CHILD LABOUR

CHILD LABOUR AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

CHILD LABOUR

Child Labour refers to the exploitation of children though any form of work that deprives children their right to be educated or to attend regular school. It is also the unfair treatment of a child which is mentally, physically and morally harmful.

Some of the negative effects of Child Labour include premature ageing, depression, malnutrition, and drug dependency.

Child Labour also have some causes which includes:

·        Poverty and Unemployment:

These children are forced to work at young age due to many family factors such as unemployment, poverty and lack of parental education. This is the major cause of Child Labour in our society.

·        Illiteracy:

Illiterate parents do not realize the need for proper development and education of a child as they are uneducated, they do not realize the importance of education therefore they use their children for money.

·        Over Population:

When a particular society is over populated there comes a situation whereby children are employed in various forms of work to earn money to assist in feeding.

Note: Any activity that are harmful to the physical and mental health of the children and that hinder their proper development is known as Child Labour.

WOMEN TRAFFICKING

Women’s Trafficking is an international activities in which fraud are used to transport women across borders for economic gain such as Slavery.

Some of the causes of women’s trafficking are: poverty, unemployment, greed, illiteracy e.t.c.

Some of the consequences of this woman trafficking include the following;

·        Forced Prostitution:

This is a crime against a person because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. It is a situation whereby a woman who has been trafficked is forced to sexual slavery or prostitution.

·        Removal of Organs:

This is the use of fraud, threat, abduction e.t.c. to take away an organ in a human being. When some ladies are trafficked they end up being forced to remove an organ which could risk her life.

·        Slavery:

This is the trade of women for the purpose of slavery or forced labour though some could be doing domestic works.

To stop Child Labour and Women Trafficking the government could help in the following ways:

·        Building schools for both the old and young with good facilities and teachers.

·        The government should raise public awareness especially in urban areas.

·        The government should reinforce penalty for those who engage in Child Labour and Women Trafficking.

·        The government should help the poor by giving them loan and the disable should be able to learn some arts. This way Child Labour and Women Trafficking would learn lesson.

OBSERVATIONS

Since Child Labour and Women Trafficking are both caused by poverty and illiteracy I believe that if the government after building and establishing schools they should then make a policy against the seeing of children in the market during school periods this will lessen and make every child attend school and gain knowledge.

COMPOSED BY GRACE