Empowering women and girl to end child labour
The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children and interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. The ILO designates whether employment for an under-17-year-old is child labour based on the terms set out in its minimum age convention. Child labour occurs when the person employed is below the age that compulsory schooling in the region ends or is below the age of 15. If a country is underdeveloped in schooling or economic activity, then it can apply to the ILO to have its minimum age reduced to 14. Any work that puts the person in danger must not be completed by a worker un...