12 Jun 2014|Noida | F3 MDP Room
Amity Institute of Social Science Disseminates Awareness to Stop Child Labor during “World Day Against Child Labor”
To mark the World Day Against Child Labor,Amity Institute of Social Science conducted a Faculty Development Programme on ‘Capacitybuilding of Faculty Members for Addressing the Issues of Child Labor’ in AmityCampus, Sector 125, Noida. The programme highlighted the cause of Child laborand ways to check the same.
The FacultyDevelopment Programme was inaugurated byDr. L Mishra, IAS (Retd.) Former Union Labor & Parliament AffairsSecretary, GOI; . Dora Guisti, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF and Prof.Nirupama Prakash, Director, Amity Institute of Social Science.
Welcoming thegathering, Prof. Nirupama Prakash,Director, Amity Institute of Social Science said that persistence of Child Laboris one of the biggest failures for countries. The situation today calls for are-energized action against the issue. When a child takes up the work thenthere is a compelling force behind it, which also needs to be addressed. Sheadded that there is no harm in learning a skill, even of a family legacy, atyoung age but it should come with education. Skill with education leads to empowerment.
During theoccasion, Dr. L Mishra, IAS (Retd.)Former Union Labor & Parliament Affairs Secretary, GOI spoke aboutchild labor in India and the importance of education for children. “Child laboris a serious issue worldwide which is now the biggest priority for countries. Manyof the country’s poorest families rely on the income of their children, hence,perpetuating a cycle of poverty that means poor adults beget poor child. Also,the inter-generation skill exchange leads to child labor, where, the child learnsthe skill of the parent to choose it as occupation in future like the child ofcarpenter opts for carpentry only” he opined.
Addressing thegathering, Ms. Dora Guisti, ChildProtection Specialist, UNICEF India talked about Protection of Children fromviolence, exploitation and abuse. She said that society lives in a myth thatviolence is just limited to physical abuse of children but psychological aggressionalso attributes to violence. According to UN study, between 500 millionand 1.5 billion children experience any form of violence every year andthe statistics is restricted to the registered cases. Highlighting thesituation in India, she further added that according to MWCD study in 2007, 2 outof 3 children have reported physical abuse, while, 1 out of2 children havereported any form of sexual abuse and 1 out of 2 children have reported emotionalabuse. Ms. Guisti suggested that building a protective environment aroundchildren can prevent and put an end to violence and it could be initiatedthrough change in attitude of parents/society, through open discussion, forums,better law and policy and many other factors.
The programmewas attended by the faculty of different institutions of Amity University.