Child Labor in Pakistan - Doc 01
It is very difficult to make a precise estimate of the magnitude of child labor in Pakistan on account of numerous limitations basic being a lack of data. The last child labor survey conducted by the government was in 1996. According to the survey, 3.3 million of the 40 million children were found to be economically active on a full-time basis. Of the 3.3 million working children, 73 percent (2.4 million) were boys and 27 percent (0.9 million) were girls. Officially children made up about seven percent of the total work force according to the findings of the survey.
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Child Labor in Pakistan - Doc 02
Child labor prevails in many forms in Pakistan. With the formal sector shrinking and informal sector growing, children are seen taking up employment in new occupations. There are many occupations where children’s visibility is high but there are some jobs where children are invisible such as child domestic labor, bonded child labor, agriculture etc.
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Child Labor in Pakistan - Doc 03
The total number of child laborers in Pakistan, majority of them are employed in agricultural occupations. Their activities include grazing and taking care of animals, collecting firewood, fetching water, spraying fertilizers, cooking and taking care of the siblings etc. According to 1996 child labor survey findings, there were eight times more children working in the rural areas then in urban areas. In urban settings, children are employed in more diversified occupations such as loading and unloading of goods, hotels and restaurants, fishing, auto workshops, rag picking, shoe-shining, begging, etc.
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Child Labor in Pakistan - Doc 04
It is very difficult to make a precise estimate of the magnitude of child labor in Pakistan on account of numerous limitations basic being a lack of data. The last child labor survey conducted by the government was in 1996. According to the survey, 3.3 million of the 40 million children were found to be economically active on a full-time basis. Of the 3.3 million working children, 73 percent (2.4 million) were boys and 27 percent (0.9 million) were girls. Officially children made up about seven percent of the total work force according to the findings of the survey.
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Child Labor in Pakistan - Doc 05
The provincial distribution indicated that the volume of child labor in the Punjab was about 1.9 million; three-fifths (60 percent) of total child labor in the country. The second on the list was NWFP, where about one million children were working. Sindh had a population of 298,000 child laborers. The lowest figure was for Balochistan, 14,000, because of the lesser number of households reporting child labor.
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Child Labour in Pakistan - Doc 06
It is very difficult to make a precise estimate of the magnitude of child labour in Pakistan on account of numerous limitations basic being a lack of data. The last child labour survey conducted by the government was in 1996. According to the survey, 3.3 million of the 40 million children were found to be economically active on a full-time basis. Of the 3.3 million working children, 73 percent (2.4 million) were boys and 27 percent (0.9 million) were girls. Officially children made up about seven percent of the total work force according to the findings of the survey.
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Child Marriages Sindh
Amnesty International (AI), in a report in 2002, found that such marriages were widespread, despite increased awareness about violence against women in all forms. The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), has been campaigning against forced marriages in Pakistan, but for the present, despite these efforts, the trend continues, rights activists say. The Sindh and southern Punjab region is one of the most impoverished in the country, and research carried out into the issue indicates this is a key factor in the increase in such unlawful unions, with parents often tempted to sell off young girls in exchange for the high price offered by grooms, often many times the age of their ‘brides’.
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