“Child labour and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labour of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labour to the end of time” – Grace Abott. Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. Child labour is a social malice that sabotages the most innocent phase of human life – childhood! It denotes the employment of children in economic activities that suppress their dignity and potentiality. Various causes of child labour like the curse of poverty, lack of educational resources, Social and economic backwardness, addiction, disease or disability, the lure of cheap labour, family tradition, discrimination between boys and girls. The presentation gives further insight on the topic.

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