Efforts have been made by different organizations and Laws established to abolish child labour. Amongst these organizations are
Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989[1] was initiated to incorporate the full range of human rights as it relates to people under the age of 18 years. International Labour Organization has organized two Conventions[2]in the past; Convention 138 on Minimum Age for Workers 1973 which sets the minimum age level for admission to work and also what qualifies as hazardous work and Convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour 1999 which requires countries to take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour as a matter of urgency.
1) Poverty. Large families’ inability to provide for themselves.
2) Unenforcement of child labour laws. Countries that have such laws still fail to abide by them.
3) Some regulations have exemptions whereby a child can do agricultural or domestic jobs.
4) Government in the name globalization seek cheap labour and also some employers. These do not encourage abolition of child labour.
Conclusively it can be said that these regulations has not been fully successful though they have gone afar in ensuring the abolition of child labour.
[1] UNICEF, < http://www.unicef.org/crc> accessed on 25 October 2010
[2] J Kooijmans, ’ILO and its Work against Child Labour: The Normative Framework and Recent Progress’. [2007] 14
Tilburg Law Review 31< http://heinonline.org/HOL/page?handle=hein.journals/tiflr
[3] ‘Child Labour’ <http://www.freethechildren.com/getinvolved/geteducated/childlabour.htm> accessed on 27 October 2010
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