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Publications and documents of the International Labour Office define child labour as both paid and unpaid work and activities that are mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children. It is work that deprives them of opportunities for schooling or that requires them to assume the multiple burdens of schooling and work at home and in other workplaces; and work that enslaves them and separates them from their family. This is meant by child labour - work carried out to the detriment and endangerment of the child, in violation of international law and national legislation.
Accordingly, child labour is to be viewed: a) as a grave social problem with severe social, economic and medical implications, and b) as an illegal activity that comes under a statutory prohibition. Child labour should be denounced by the nation as an intolerable social phenomenon and should evoke adequate responses on the part of the authorities and public groups resulting in nation-wide and regional programmes that eradicate child labour.
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