The term child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
Children may be driven into work for various reasons. Most often, child labour occurs when families face financial challenges or uncertainty – whether due to poverty, sudden illness of a caregiver, or job loss of a primary wage earner.
Migrant and refugee children – many of whom have been uprooted by conflict, disaster or poverty – also risk being forced into work and even trafficked, especially if they are migrating alone or taking irregular routes with their families.
And the child labour sometimes occurs due to some other reasons such as culture influences sometimes family motives the child of working and supporting parents. Loss of parents, disability of father and low finance of family.
So the seminar’s aim was to decide as sociology department what we can do to eliminate this phenomenon and there were different suggestions which we will consider working on them