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- According to the Convention on the rights of the Child, Child Labor is:
- employing children below 15 years old in factories and industries where they are not directly under supervision of their parents. this jeopardizes their right to education, healthand total well-being.
- Making children below 18 years work in hazardous occupations.
- Making children Work at night.
- Paying children less than adult workers;
- Using children as sexual workers - child prostitution
- Locking up children and forcing them to work - bonded labor. usually, children in bonded
- labor incur more debts because their employers charge them for shelter and food. there is
- a vicious circle where the children are forced to stay and keep working, which only forces
- them to incur more debt.
- Chemical Factories
- Mining
- Pyrotechnic Factories
- Deep-sea Fishing
- Transportation
- Commercial Plantations
- Construction Work
- Prostitution
- Quarrying
- High Incidence of Respiratory Diseases
- Poor Nutrition
- Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
- Exposure to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Stunted Intellectual and Physical Development
- Low Self-esteem
- Underdeveloped Moral and Intellectual Faculties.
