A humanist and pragmatic approach was suggested towards Child Labour elimination in
the country as though a manifestation of poverty it further aggravated unemployment
among adult population. Speakers addressing a capacity building workshop on
"Activating Media in Combating Child Labour, jointly organized by ILO sponsored
International Program on Elimination of Child Labour and Pakistan Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting called for a multi-dimensional approach to address the
issue.

They taking stock of the fact that child labour could be witnessed in varied forms
in both urban and rural sector of the country regretted that only a few were raised
and not all despite being equally hazardous and fatal for kids. Plight of child
scavengers, child beggars, help at automobile workshops, domestic help, support in
agricultural sector, contributors at brick kiln were reminded to hold no less risks
as to which these kids, aged between seven to fourteen, could be exposed to at a
carpet weaving factory, foot ball industry.

Salma Majeed Jafar, Project Manger, Child Domestic Work Project of ILO, in her
presentation on "Situation Analysis of Child Domestic Labour" referred to a
available data revealing no less than 3.3 million kids engaged in economic
activities with 250 thousand serving as child domestic labour. According to a
recently compiled statistics of Federal Bureau of Statistics every fifth house had a
child worker feared to be at high risk of exploitation ranging from child abuse, in
varied forms, to being under paid or taken upon as bonded labour. [Source: Pakistan Fact Sheet]