Peer-reviewed article
Human Rights and Child Labour: A Critical Appraisal: Examining the Impact of Child Labour on Human Rights
Dr. Lalit Kumar Dr. Lalit Kumar ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines child labour as a violation of children's human rights, focusing on how children engaged in worst forms of labour lose access to education, development, and a safe childhood. The work documents how child labourers face multiple harms including maltreatment, trafficking, sexual abuse, and forced marriage. The paper analyses various aspects of child labour and investigates its root causes.
Key points
- Children in worst forms of labour experience deprivation of basic rights including education, development, and survival
- Child labour is associated with multiple harms including maltreatment, child marriage, kidnapping, trafficking, and sexual abuse
- The paper attempts to analyse various aspects of child labour and identify root causes
Limitations
The document is an abstract or introduction only, providing no empirical data, methodology, findings, or analysis of specific interventions. It does not identify which countries are affected or provide evidence on the scale or nature of child labour impacts.
Abstract
The human rights are essential for the growth and the development of every human being including the children. At present, the violations of children’s rights become the serious issue. Many children are working in the worst forms of labour like bondage, semi-slavery, prostitution and so on. They are depriving their basic rights such as right to education, right to development, right to survive and even right to childhood. Consequently, they are becoming victim of maltreatment, child marriage, kidnapping and abduction, immoral trafficking and child rape or sexual abused etc. The paper is trying to analyses the various aspects of child labour. Further, the study finds out the roots causes of the problems.