We are Crying but no one is listening....

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

 "Child labor must not become the nation's social safety net."

 "Small hands can handle a pen better. Lend your support to abolish child labor."

 "Eradicate child labor and aspire for a better future"

 "World revolves around the children. Childrens' future revolves around education. Stop Child Labor"

"When you produce a bullet, you commit another sin against mankind, but when you make a toy or a book you bring hope and smile to a child."

 We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

I am crying but no one is there to help us...Will you help us ???

Child Labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on part or full-time basis. The practice deprives children of their childhood, and is harmful to their physical and mental development. Poverty, lack of good schools and growth of informal economy are considered as the important causes of child labour in India.

The 2001 national census of India estimated the total number of child labour, aged 5–14, to be at 12.6 million. The child labour problem is not unique to India; worldwide, about 217 million children work, many full-time.

In 2001, out of a 12.6 million, about 12 million children in India were in a hazardous job. UNICEF estimates that India with its larger population, has the highest number of labourers in the world under 14 years of age, while sub-saharan African countries have the highest percentage of children who are deployed as child labour. International Labour Organisation estimates that agriculture at 60 percent is the largest employer of child labour in India, while United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates 70 % of child labour is deployed in agriculture and related activities.Outside of agriculture, child labour is observed in almost all informal sectors of the Indian economy.

Article 24 of India's constitution prohibits child labour. Additionally, various laws and the Indian Penal Code, such as the Juvenile Justice (care and protection) of Children Act-2000, and the Child Labour (Prohibition and Abolition) Act-1986 provide a basis in law to identify, prosecute and stop child labour in India.