Child labor, an Evil in the society, threat to Humanity
According to the UNICEF report (2017), sixteen percent of children, aged from 5 to 17, are child labors
in Pakistan. This striking figure depicts the miserable condition of basic children's rights in Pakistan. Moreover, Internationally. Pakistan stands 154th out of 181 countries in the global children's rights index. In society, children perform many jobs, ranging from a shoe -shining, car-cleaning, hawking on the roads, and streets to working in Auto repair shops. Sometimes, these little children are beaten to death by their employers such as, the case of session judge, child labor also becomes the target of non-state actors, who uses these children to accomplish their nefarious design of terrorism. When they go to the hand of drug mafias, they use them for supplying drugs. Therefore, the government should take concrete steps, as well as civil society, to upend this evil.