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LAHORE-PAKISTAN-------[PRESS REPORT]

Mr. Anwar Aleemi, Advocate,Chairman, HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL -HRI has issued a detailed report on "CHILD LABOUR' after the receipt of "REPORTS ON CHILD LABOUR " from the coordinators of Human Rights International-HRI working all over the world especially from the poor and developing countries.The report on "Child Labour" compiled by Anwar Aleemi, Chairman Of HRI has been sent to General Secretary Of UNITED NATIONS Mr. Ban KI Moon for proper action in to the issue of CHILD LABOUR, which is a global issue of extreme sensitive concern. United Nation is bound by its structure to rectify the issue by making concrete steps.

It is told that United Nations is legally bound to adopt "AFFECTIVE POLICY"
without any delay to resolve the burning issue of "CHILD LABOUR" which is of the issue of grave importance in the poor and developing countries. " World Bank [W.B.], International Monetary Fund [I.M.F.], World Trade Organization[W.T.O.] and all other allied organizations working under the direct control of United Nations are legally bound to play their constructive role for the abolition of CHILD LABOUR without any delay in the interest of the general people living in poor and developing states with their monetary resources."Anwar Aleemi demanded.

"Children are the future of the society. Every child has a right to
enjoy its childhood. It is the mandatory job of the governments to
take all possible steps to put an end to the problem of child labour.
It is the obligation of every generation to bring up children who will
be citizens of tomorrow in a proper way. Today's children will be
leaders of tomorrow who will hold the country's banner high and
maintain the prestige of the nation. If the government of any country
commits itself towards combating the problem of child labour, then it
is sure that the children, who at present have engaged themselves in
long hours of work, would enable to breathe the joy of freedom" Anwar
Aleemi expressed his views.

"The prevalence of child labour is a bolt on the conscience of society.
It harms not only the present generation but also the posterity.
If one conceives the idea of child labour it brings before the eyes the picture of exploitation of little, physically tender, illiterate and under-nourished
children working in hazardous occupation and unhealthy conditions.
The problem of child labour is such that it can hardly be legislated away as
its roots lie in abject poverty and backwardness of the society.
As the problem of child labour is a global phenomenon, legislation and acts of
ratification by United Nation binding for all the members of countries
of United Nations are important. Yet the future of children would not
be secured unless their rights are clearly identified, redefined and
restored globally by United Nations. All children must be given an
opportunity for development. The idea that children have special needs
has given way to the conviction that they have rights such as civil,
political, social, cultural and economic like adults have" Anwar
Aleemi said.

HRI's observations
will be useful not only to those who are interested in the study and understanding of child labour but also the perspectives provided may be of considerable help to the students of social science, judges, academicians, politicians and others, interested in studying the growing problems of child labour world over" Anwar Aleemi Claimed.

The main observations of the report issued by Mr. Anwar Aleemi, Advocate,Chairman-HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL-HRI are given here in under for taking proper actions for the abolition of the curse of " child labour" in all over the world especially in the countries having poor and developing states in the areas of South Asian and other parts of the world comprised on
poor and underdeveloped countries in Asia, Africa, Asia Pacafic
including the developing areas of the developed countries.

1. Around the world, millions of children have never had a childhood. They are
forced to work, sometimes as child laborers, sometimes as virtual
slaves. This practice is illegal and just plain wrong.Child labor is a
crime committed against nearly 220 million children, or one in every
seven, ages 5 to 17, around the world.

2. Many of the worst forms of child labour are a problem in Pakistan,India, Nepal and almost in all the countries of South Asia, poor and developing countries worldwide. These include child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, bonded child labour, child domestic work and the recruitment and use of children for armed conflict or drug trafficking. Demand for child
labor is so high that desperate parents sell their children into
bondage.15% of children in Pakistan,Nepal, Bhutan, Bangla Desh , India
and other South Asian countries between the ages of 5 and 14 are
engaged in child labour activities including carpet production and other main industries of the area.

3. Child labour actually makes poverty worse. Child workers come cheaply and sometimes at no cost, and drive down wages for adult labourers. Child labourers are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, are subject to long hours of physically demanding and unrelenting work, and suffer from deprivation
and poor health.

4. The first part of the 21st century is a defining time for the movement to end child labour. Contrary to these claims by the international governmental institutions , the handmade carpet industry exploits nearly 300,000 children in South Asia and is a major "employer" of child labour. Children ages 4 to 14 are kidnapped or trafficked, then sold into debt bondage or forced labour. They are subject to malnutrition, impaired vision and deformities from sitting
long hours in cramped loom sheds. They suffer respiratory diseases
from in-hailing wool fibers and wounds from using sharp tools. Rugs are among South Asia's top export products and a high-employment
sector for the poor. If child exploitation is a norm in a country's
principle industry, there is little chance to break the cycle of extreme poverty. Once trafficked into one form of labour, there is a strong likelihood that children may later be sold into another. High percentage of girls from rural areas are recruited to work in carpet factories, are trafficked into the sex.

5. In Pakistan, children whose parents take money in advance for their work on carpet looms and brick manufacturing industries in the brick klins [BRICKS HAND MADE INDUSTRY] are the most vulnerable victims of a debt-bondage system.

The children are really not paid there wages and they are not allowed
even to leave the premises until the debt is fully paid. It is also
reported that in most of the places in the country the children in
different areas are forced to work after enchaining their bodies in
iron clutches. Older workers and the owners of such small but
numberless industries sexually abuse these bounded children, about a
quarter of whom are girls under the age of 15.

6. In Pakistan where cruel feudal and ancient tribal system is prevailing in the most rural areas of Pakistan, children along with their family members are forced to live in the ruthless clutches of merciless feudal lords and the
heads of different tribes. Most of the population in most of the areas
here in Pakistan , children along with their parents are forced to work in all agricultural fields along with their poor parents irrespective of gender. In these areas ,no one is allowed to open schools for proper education for children neither any hospitals are allowed to be established , where children along with there parents can get proper treatments. In most of theses areas , the feudal lords themselves establish their police stations and courts
to penalize the population including children for not obeying the orders of their lords, their self made gods including minor children at large.
It is also observed that most of the children are forced to work as personal servants in the palaces of feudal lords and tribal leaders without any pay on this mere reason that their parents are workers in the process of irrigation in the huge fields of most of feudal lords for meager amount only to take breath and to work for them.

It is the worst form of barbarian style of brutality and cruelty at large scale which is practiced particularly in Pakistan and rest of world especially in poor and developing countries. This situation is is an eye opener for the claimants of human right activists , slogan mongers of civil liberties, self-designed democracy and rule of law.
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