The problem of child labour is painfully obvious in the streets, markets, workshops and factories.
Children work roam the streets of Karachi in Pakistan, as trash pickers, collecting paper, metal shavings, bottles and anything else for which they can make a pittance off contractors. On Sundays, they spend the day at Karachi’s Sunday Market, where they carry the shopping load of those visiting the market.
These children are either the sole earners for their families, or work and act as supplemental collaborators to their family’s income pool. They are all between the ages of 8 to 14 years.
Child labour and abuse of domestic child workers remained widespread.
1,154 juveniles were detained in the prisons across the country.
170 juveniles committed suicide across Pakistan and another 76 attempted suicide but their lives were saved.
Over one million child labourers between the ages of 10 to 14 were working in the country.
As child welfare falls in the provincial domain following the 18th constitutional Amendment, all child protection bills introduced at the federal level have been halted in different phases of legislative process.
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