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2 results foundAuthor: Ringdal, Charlotte Title: Small Hands Should Play, Not Work: A Theoretical Analysis of Interventions in Child Labor Summary: Twelve hours a day, 7 days a week, there are 150 million children below the age of 15 working to make the clothes we wear, the carpets on our floors and the phones in our pockets. Most of these children do not have a choice: the alternative is worse. In this thesis, I use economic models to study how interventions (such as increased educational opportunities, firmer legislation, international conventions and product labeling) affect the incidence of child labor. I find that most interventions are likely to reduce the incidence of child labor either at a national level, a local level or in a specific industry. Some interventions (such as bans) are more likely to reduce the welfare of children than others (such as increased educational opportunities). It appears that if households do not chose by themselves to withdraw children from the labor market and are not given any form of compensation for lost income, the welfare of households (and thus the children as well) is reduced. Having this in mind, I take a closer look at one intervention in the carpet sector in Nepal: the Nepal GoodWeave Foundation. This organization labels carpets that are exported to countries such as Germany and the U.S. I find that GoodWeave is successful in reducing child labor in the factories that carry their label. At the same time, the organization helps to maintain the welfare of the children through education programs, in addition to preventing child labor by offering the children of carpet workers access to kindergartens and schools. Unfortunately, the scope of the program is too small to eliminate child labor throughout the carpet sector in Nepal. Details: Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 2011. 102p. Source: Internet Resource: Master's Thesis: Accessed March 30, 2012 at: http://www.cmi.no/publications/publication/?4395=small-hands-should-play-not-work Year: 2011 Country: Nepal URL: http://www.cmi.no/publications/publication/?4395=small-hands-should-play-not-work Shelf Number: 124778 Keywords: Child Labor (Nepal)Child Protection |
Author: KidsRights Title: Behind Closed Doors: Child Domestic Labour, with a focus on the Kamlari system in Nepal Summary: Behind closed doors, all over the world, there are children as young as five years old working long hours for little or no pay - domestic slaves with no way out. The International Labour Organization estimates that 11.5 million children worldwide are child domestic labourers (ILO, Child Domestic Work: Global estimates 2012, 2013). There are crucial distinctions between child domestic work and child domestic labour. According to the ILO, work becomes unacceptable and is classified as labour when the child is under the age of 12; or under 15 years old and working more than 14 hours a week; or under 18 and working in hazardous conditions or more than 43 hours a week. Many countries still fail to recognise that child domestic work can under these circumstances be classified as child labour. Child domestic labour breaks numerous internationally-recognised child rights, depriving children of their childhood and their education, and placing them in dangerous and abusive situations. But worse still, in bonded child labour, the child is often a form of payment for a pre-existing family debt, and is not at liberty to leave. In 2000, Nepal abolished the Kamaiya system of bonded agricultural labour, where families of the low-status Tharu tribe would be put to work to pay the never-ending interest on historical debts. After the abolition of the Kamaiya system came the Kamlari system, where these same families, now homeless and destitute, sold their daughters into domestic service, believing they would have a better life and a good education. That better life and good education was a fiction peddled by the middlemen who sold the Kamlari girls into a life of servitude. Plan International estimates that "between 10,000 to 12,000 girls are currently working as domestic servants under the Kamalari system", based on a survey from 2011. These girls are living a life of bonded child domestic labour, working long hours, separated from their families, unable to gain a basic education and subject to all sorts of abuse, or even death. Despite laws against bonded labour in Nepal, little has been done. Middle and upper class professionals were responsible for eradicating the system, but middle and upper class professionals also happened to be benefiting from it. In May 2013, campaign groups, including former Kamlari girls themselves, united to carry out a ten-day protest, calling on the Nepalese government for immediate change. They secured a significant number of promises, including an official announcement of the abolition of the Kamlari system on 18 July. That announcement has yet to be followed by legislation, but NGOs are actively rescuing Kamlari girls and accessing resources to support them. But there is much still to be done in Nepal. Although the state has signed up to key international conventions and has enacted the relevant national laws, the burden of implementation seems to fall to NGOs. The abolition of the Kamlari system remains an aspiration, not yet reinforced with legislation. And impoverished Tharu families still need to be rescued from the desperate circumstances that made the system possible in the first place. Details: Amsterdam: KidsRights Foundation, 2014. 26p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2014 at: http://www.kidsrights.org/Portals/1/About%20us/KidsRightsReport-Behind%20Closed%20Doors%20digitaal%20final.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Nepal URL: http://www.kidsrights.org/Portals/1/About%20us/KidsRightsReport-Behind%20Closed%20Doors%20digitaal%20final.pdf Shelf Number: 133087 Keywords: Child Domestic LaborChild Labor (Nepal) |