The
issue of child labour and abuse has suddenly come to the forefront with
the recent case of Tayyaba, a child servant, employed at the residence
of a Sessions Court Judge. This is not a lone incident. In the past
there have been numerous unfortunate incidents that have served to
highlight the plight of such children and the harm inflicted on them.
Some have, unfortunately, even lost their lives. These are the cases
that were written about, there must be many more of which we never even
hear. Children are the future of any nation. It is a sad reflection on a
nation when it is unable to offer protection, education, and growth
opportunities for its younger generation, and when it allows their
exploitation and inflicts physical and emotional damage on them.
“Child
labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to
use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of
poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” (Grace Abbott).
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