مجلة الدراسات القانونية
Volume 12, Numéro 2, Pages 606-617
2026-06-06
Child Exploitation: Meaning, Causes And Consequences
Authors : Mekhaneg Abdallah .
Abstract
Abstract: This paper deals with child exploitation. Worldwide, millions of children are robbed of their childhood because they are forced into work that jeopardizes their health and education. Child labour encompasses all activities that deprive children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and that harm their schooling, health, and physical and mental development. These working children are everywhere, yet invisible: domestic servants in homes, behind the walls of workshops, hidden in plantations. While the vast majority of children work in the agricultural sector, the worst forms of child labour include the use of children as slaves, prostitution, drug trafficking, crime, or recruitment as soldiers in conflict situations or for other dangerous work. Child labour is primarily driven by poverty in families and communities, but it is also the product of other factors: social norms that tolerate it, the lack of decent jobs, migration, and emergency situations . It is also a consequence of social inequalities exacerbated by discrimination. Children from indigenous and lower caste communities are at greater risk of dropping out of school and being forced into child labour. Migrant children are also highly vulnerable to clandestine and illegal work. Progress toward eliminating child labour is therefore closely linked to reducing these vulnerabilities, mitigating economic shocks, and ensuring access to social services.
Keywords
child exploitation ; vulnerable ; dangerous work ; inequalities ; poverty
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