Child Labour is heinous matter of this country and it depend only the complete rehabilitation of society, not only focusing the same matter. We cannot see the matter to segregate the concerned issues related it i.e. poverty, illiteracy, unawareness, corruption, injustice and intolerance. And the said may be resolved with exception of change the whole system. But the possibilities of this are not seen so far. For sake to provide the general acknowledgment we are describing the International and National Laws related the Child Labour.

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
This Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989. The scope of this convention extends to persons up to the age of 18. Pakistan has ratified this Convention in 1990. Article 32 of CRC reads.

"State Parties recognise the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development".

ILO's Minimum Age Convention 138
This Convention was adopted by ILO in 1973. It states that minimum age for employment may not be set lower than the age of completion of compulsory schooling and, in any event not less that 15 years (initially 14 years in the case of developing countries). Although spirit of this Convention is reflected in several Pakistani laws, it has yet to be formally ratified by the Government of Pakistan.

National Laws Pertaining to Child Labour
The Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan states: "No child below the age of fourteen shall be engaged in any factory or mine or in any other hazardous employment." Also, "All forms of forced labour and traffic in human beings is prohibited." A number of laws contain provisions prohibiting child labour or regulating the working conditions of child and adolescent workers. The most important laws are:

The Factories Act 1934.
The West Pakistan Shops and Establishments Ordinance 1969.
The Employment of Children Act 1991.
The Bonded Labour System Abolition Act 1992.
The Punjab Compulsory Education Act 1994.

I would like to comprised the emotion of a child Nelson Ali on said issue and I think the readers will be inspired of his expression in this regard.

“Children like as flowers, if we force on these then their souls was broken, it is the major issue of any type of country where no any way to help poor peoples and their children, so we discuss on child labour in Pakistan. Pakistan is poor country, not poor from starting but because of our govt polices are not right for any institution of our country. Pakistan has been always helpless. Pakistan's government never do for own country what they do for poor peoples. If any one living in this country it means they are not in own safe country but in like as jail, but others countries jail also good from this countries people living. If any country wants progress then education is must. Means society of middle class family they give education to their children but any poor peoples can't do this, because a lot of money need for any education for children, but our government always quite on this issue, only government of Pakistan is begging money from others countries from 61 years not for own country but only for own aims. It means from 61 years no one good leader who think about their peoples and their children but here a lot of corruption in any government department. Pakistan government never thinks about poor peoples how they survive in life and how get money, how give education to our children. So we need to think about child labour and those children’s also use drugs b/c they don’t know about these things and they are away from their parents so they do as they like and a lot of children died because of using drugs and many children died b/c of abusing.”



                                                                                   Nadeem Ahmed Jamal