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Other NGOs that has worked on the issue of child labor in Pakistan includes organisation such as |
Other NGOs that has worked on the issue of child labor in Pakistan includes organisation such as ''UNICEF'' <ref>{{cite news|last=Silvers|first=Jonathan|title=Child Labor in Pakistan|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/child-labor-in-pakistan/4660/|newspaper=The Atlantic}}</ref> . ''UNICEF'' supported the NCCWD in drafting of the Child Protection Law and the Child Protection Policy and initiated the establishment of Child Protection Monitoring and Data Collecting System.Many other NGO such as ''ROZAN'' has work to protect the child in NGO<ref>{{cite web|title=Child Protection|url=http://www.unicef.org/pakistan/partners_1790.htm|publisher=UNICEF}}</ref> . |
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Revision as of 07:54, 11 March 2011
NGO groups against child labor have been raising awareness of the exploitation of children in Pakistan. [1] .
Child Labour in Pakistan - Football Stitching
By the late 1990s, Pakistan had come to account for 75 percent of total world production of soccer balls (or “footballs,” as they are known in most countries), and 71 percent of all soccer ball imports into the United States. The International Labor Rights Forum and allies called attention to rampant child labor in the soccer ball industry. According to investigations, thousands of children between the ages of 5 and 14 were putting in as many as 10 to 11 hours per day stitching. [2]. Then, the International Labor Organization, UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed the Partners' Agreement to Eliminate Child Labor in the Soccer Industry in Pakistan on February 14, 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia. [3] .
Save the Children
Save the Children has also been working with some of the sporting goods manufacturers represented by the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and their international partner brands, represented by the World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI). This joint effort is aimed at ensuring that children are not employed to stitch footballs[4]. Save the Children (UK) includes disseminating information about child labour on major networks like CBS and the like. [5]
Save the Children has also worked on project with the British Secretary of State for International Development to phase out child labour in Sialkot. The £750,000 donated by Britain will be spent on education and training, and also on setting up credit and savings schemes in an attempt to provide alternatives to bonded labour. [6].
SPARC
SPARC has conducted research that goes into producing its publications, including three major books on child labor, juvenile justice and child rights. Its annual report The State of Pakistan’s Children and a large number of brochures, SPARC has conducted a number of research studies[7]. SPARC has continued to ask successive governments to upgrade their laws to set a legal age limit for employment in Pakistan, although they have not been successful in doing so. [8] .
Other NGOs
Other NGOs that has worked on the issue of child labor in Pakistan includes organisation such as UNICEF [9] . UNICEF supported the NCCWD in drafting of the Child Protection Law and the Child Protection Policy and initiated the establishment of Child Protection Monitoring and Data Collecting System.Many other NGO such as ROZAN has work to protect the child in NGO[10] .
References
- ^ "Sub Group on Child Labor". Child Rights Information Network.
- ^ "Stop Child And Forced Labor". International Labor Rights Forum. Retrieved Feb 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Atlanta Agreement". Retrieved Feb 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Husselbee, David (2000). NGOs as development partners to the corporates: Child football Stichers in Pakistan. pp. 377–389.
- ^ A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Laboour and Postcolonial Impoverishment. 2007.
{{cite book}}:|first=missing|last=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Pakistan Flood 2010 - Six Months On" (PDF). Save the Children.
- ^ "Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), Pakistan". Childwatch International Research Network.
- ^ Denice, Doreen. "Towards the Eradication of Child Labor in Pakistan". The Fletcher School Online Journal.
- ^ Silvers, Jonathan. "Child Labor in Pakistan". The Atlantic.
- ^ "Child Protection". UNICEF.