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Child Labor
Title: Child Labor
Category: Law & Government / Law Issues
Details: Words: 971 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Child Labor
The term child labor denotes work done by children which overtaxes
their strength and stunts their physical or mental growth. It harms them as
children and may prevent them from becoming normal adults. Child labor is
therefore objectionable for humanitarian and utilitarian reasons alike. Though
cheaper than adult labor, it is less efficient and constitutes a waste of human
and economic resources. It damages not only the child but society as a
whole.
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…showed last 75 words of 971 total…improvement of factory inspection, has successfully continued its effort to mitigate
harmful effects of child labor. The ILO, however, lacks the power to enforce the
conventions.
On November 20, 1959, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a Declaration of
the Rights of the Child and unanimously demanded that it be given the widest
publicity. The declaration urged the right of a child to recreation, schooling, care,
and protection 'against all forms of neglect, cruelty, and economic exploitation.'
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