Since 2002, June 12 has been announced as World Day Against Child Labor, which requires the cooperation of governments, employers, labor organizations, society and millions of people. “Labor of Child” is mentioning as a work which in implementing by the underaged children. Poverty, neglecting the children, suburbanite and miseducation, are the reasons of increasing the occurrence of child labor. International Labor Organization, on the convention no. 138 which refers to minimum age of the work of children (Article 2-3), vividly declares that minimum age of children is 15 years old. but the obligation law of Iran, does not categorize the work of under 15 children as the child labor. in Iran, sequentially, Khorasan Razavi, Sistan & Balouchestan and Tehran have the most labor children. in addition of Iranian children, as the consequence of poverty, lack of citizenship rights or lack of financial or mental support of the government of Islamic Republic of Iran, foreign children (specially afghan), Inevitably, are working at the early ages.
Created by Media Department of the Defense of Human Rights Association in Iran
Editor: Sevgi Hasanzade
Writer: Davood Vahidi
Narrator: Najme Taghinezhad
Consultant: Alireza Jahan Bin
Translated by Alireza Jahan Bin