I was going through some online materials on child labour and I came across some questions posed by a columnist from Libertarian Newspaper Stephen Chapman. His question goes like this, 'why is it unconscionable for a poor country to allow child labour? Pakistan has a per capita income of $1,900 per year meaning that the typical person subsists on barely $5 per day. Is it a revelation - or a crime- that some parents willingly send their children off to work in a factory to survive? Is it cruel for Nike to give them the chance?' He argues that the best way to end child labour is to buy more of the products that children produce.
This sounds so strange and different from I what I been reading but it dawned on me that there is still plenty work to be done to achieve the aims and objectives of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child if we have plenty Stephen Chapmans in our midst.
There is need to let people know that the adverse effect of child labour is far greater than the visible and immediate positive gains it generates.
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