Effect Of Covid-19 On Child Labour

Muskaan Yadav & Sanjana Agarwal, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

ABSTRACT

Child labour is a global issue which prevents children from fulfilling their potential. Child labour is a violation of children's rights - the work can harm them mentally or physically, expose them to hazardous situations or stop them from going to school.1Not all work done by children is classed as child labour. Often older children may do chores for their parents or small jobs to earn pocket money or gain work experience. This work prepares them for their adult working life. But around the world, millions of children do work in child labour, work in fields, in factories, down mines, as servants or maids, or selling goods in the street or at markets these activities are done by them and Girls are more likely than boys to do domestic work, such as cleaning, making food and serving. There are places where children can be forced to do and it can also be illegal likes working with drug gangs or in prostitution. Conditions these children faces like they may get no money for the work but they will get food and a place to sleep in case they are sick or injured, most children will not get any money for missing work.2 The main aim of this research paper is to study why child labour is done, what is the situation of child labour in India and is the effect of covid -19 on child labour , how country like USA deals with this problem .

Keywords: child labour, impact of covid -19, causes, conditions