Child Labor

• Child labor


  Work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development
• Child labor


  • Separates children from their families
  • Subjects them to unsafe conditions
• Child labor

  Work that causes harm to a child's cognitive, physical, socio-emotional, and moral well-being and prevents him/her to go to school or leave school ahead of the required time or attend school in spite of doing extremely oppressive work
• Worst forms of child labor (ILO Convention No. 182)

  • All kinds of bondage or practices related to slavery: selling and trading of children, bondage due to credit, and involuntary or forced enlistment of children as child soldiers
  • The use of children for prostitution, for producing pornographic materials, or for pornographic shows
  • The use of children as couriers, sellers for drugs, and use of children in services for illegal trade and unlawful activities
  • Work which by its characteristics will be detrimental to a child's health, wellness, and morals
• ILO Convention 138 on Minimum Age


  • The legal age of children allowed to work is 15 years old with some exceptions made for developing countries which allow children to work at 14 years old
  • Children should also have finished compulsory schooling
  • Allows children to develop mentally and also physically before working
• Hazardous child labor (ILO Convention 182)


  • Work that is done by a child below 18 years old that will certainly impair the child's physical or mental state
  • Identified as one of the most terrible kinds of child labor