Cotton Plantation in India

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for child labour.

Firstly, many of children who work as child labour cannot go to school and parents do not know the importance of schooling. Education provides children with skills and capabilities. It will lead to gainful employment which would contributes to national and local development in the future. It will be an effective measure to stop bad spiral of poverty. International labour organization has been offering provide with policy advice and technical assistance to government to eliminate the risks of child labour (International Labour Organization, n.d.).

Secondly, since the Fairtrade introduced in 2004, the severe situation of cotton plantation substantially improved. The purposes of fair trade are supporting sustainable development, poverty alleviation and empowerment of cotton producers. Thanks to the fair trade, cotton producers can obtain much more incomes. Therefore, parents who send their children to work can stop sending their children to work (Fairtrade International, 2011).

Lastly, even individuals can do something for against child labour. People should consider the children who work for their dresses in the behind. They should purchase cotton products made from an ethically certified companies and ask company about its policies and process like where the cotton came from? It will lead to avoid child labour. Moreover, people should more know about child labour. If people start thinking about it, they will be aware of heartless situation in Cotton plantation in India. This individual thought is the very first step toward solving the issue (World Vision Australia, 2012).

4 Conclusion

To sum up, children in cotton plantation in India is taken away their infinite future due to child labour. The main purpose of child labour is poverty and it is almost impossible to brake away from poverty spiral. The problems involved in many aspects such as social, legal and economic. In the social aspect, child labour give negative effects to children’s growth. Since they work at low wages, they cannot quit job and cannot receive educations. In the legal aspect, Conviction on the Rights of the Child enacted in 1990 to protect children from any dangerous and to insist children have rights to receive education. However, it is not enforced by many developing countries including India. Additionally, cotton industry is world’s one of the main essential industries and involved in all countries in the world. Cotton is traded by many nations. Cotton is usually trade at very low price. Therefore, deficit of trade is harm to nations economy. The low global cotton price afflicts not only cotton provider but also cotton produce counties. Furthermore, major clothes companies which are from all over the world have taken anti-child labour position. To solve the issue of child labour in India, providing education is one of effective measures. It will be possible to break poverty spiral by providing education which is helpful for children’s future. As cotton consumer, Fairtrade can support cotton suppliers. Fairtrade promote empowerment of cotton producers and it expect that raise the price of cotton. Finally, people should more think about the problems of child labour. If people care about where the cotton that is used in their T-shits came from, it would have great influence to solve the problem. Having an interest will be the first step of solve problems.

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