It is also alarming to know that 30 percent of children reach the illiteracy rate even after completing five to six years in education. ... When India gained Independence in 1947, she inherited a legacy of large-scale illiteracy and lack of proper provision in education. ...
Academically speaking, ignorance and illiteracy is a huge problem among the forced labored workers. ... The term forced labor has been defined by the human right convention as "All the work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself/Her self voluntarily". ...
Anthony drafted a defining document of the women's movement, which was written in language parallel to the Declaration of Independence. ... Child labor condemned an enormous amount of children to a future of illiteracy, poverty, and prolonged agony. ...
These immigrants inhabited the area north of the CPR rail tracks, which provided not only a physical division between the rich and the poor, but also an "ethnic schism."3 In fact "in the areas largely populated by immigrants from central Europe, overcrowding, illiteracy, crime and seasonal unemployment rule[d]."4 Even the most skilled workers were affected. ... Fowler amended the contract proposal to include a provision that required civic employees to take a pledge that they would never strike as a condition of employment.6 The amendment put the city council on record as opposing any right to...
The inability of the child to get a proper job later on also stems from illiteracy, coupled with the lack of proper skill. ... This international law prohibits worst forms of child labour, defined as all forms of slavery and slavery-like practices, such as child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labour, including forced recruitment of children into armed conflict and use of children in pornography, prostitution, drug production and trafficking and in all hazardous work.11 Both the Worst Forms Convention 182 (C182) and the Minimum Age Convention (C138) are examples of international labour stan...
