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Children are meant to be playing and learning. They are meant to remember the lovely memories of their childhood. Don’t you have memories of when you were little? Some incidents at least? Now imagine that they’re being replaced with work. It’s not bad enough that we have to work when we grow up? I think it’s wrong to make children whose hands are meant to play, lift heavy loads, or clean the place. It’s definitely cruel, and it has to be stopped.<\/p>\n

According to the UNCRC, \u201ca child means any human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.\u201d This definition of a child enables individual countries to set the age limit on their own terms, as in the case of India, at 14 years. Unfortunately, India is also home to the largest number of child labourers in the world.<\/p>\n

Child labour has at least one of the following characteristics:<\/p>\n