An Assessment of Socio-economic Determinants of Child Labour in Kano State Nigeria
An Assessment of Socio-economic Determinants of Child Labour in Kano State Nigeria
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
A child is the wellspring of man's and his community's revitalization. The United Nations General Assembly unanimously enacted the Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1959, stating that mankind owes the child the best that it has to offer and that every child is entitled to protection in the early years (adequate health care, food and social service and preparing for later years without respect to social status, sex, race and so on). The United Nation convention and Africa's charter define a child as every human below the age of fourteen years old. Children are the most vulnerable members of the human species, and they are the most vulnerable to abuse in society.The statement by no means dismisses...
