Millions of the children are victims of violence and exploitation. They are physically and emotionally vulnerable. They can be scarred for the whole life as they are being abused by the society. Children should have the first right to our attention and to the natural resources. They should be in the core of our thinking and decision making.

Children are any human being below the age of 18 years. They cannot take any decision on their own for themselves; instead their adults caregivers, including parents, teacher, social worker and youth workers. Children are not allowed to vote, to marry, to buy alcohol or make any decision on the behalf of their adults etc…

Thus regarding to the above statements the elders mostly consider them their penniless creature which are living under their commands. Abusing and humiliation of this beneath created people is a sin in any law of humanity.

But regretfully the circumstances are quite reverse; they are oppressively treated by their big ones particularly in backward countries.

Afghanistan with 24 million people captures 30 percent of primary school age children as worker in different areas of the country. They are often the source of income for their families. The running civil war in the last three decades made the country hell-like for the people. The families scattered, men were killed or arrested and then persecuted. Many of the children were robbed and other organs of the family vanished that still no one knows where they were taken.

Social norms and law hold back women from going and working outside when the Taliban were in power. Even though the law changed with the withdrawal of Taliban rulers but still it is not culturally accepted for women to leave their homes. If a woman has been widowed or her husband is unable to work due to injury or illness then the responsibilities of the family fall to other male relatives. When there is no deserving supporter of a family then children become the breadwinner.

And yet the condition is running as follows. Children must support their families whether the family is large in number or little. They are obligated by family and society. Although the afghan law mandates that workers must be of 15 years old and work up to 35 hours a week. But children start working as they grew up. 6 years old up to 14 years children widely can be observed working in hazardous conditions.

Poorest families are unable to send their children to school; instead due to high rates of poverty they are compelling their new grown children to go to work. Majority of them are working in large factories that are illegal for them to work in, But the undeveloped people incase to have highly profit, do not think of the harms and diseases that the child will face in future, by satisfying them with little amount of money.

Many jobs are located in uncertain places that are hard to bear by children. Firework, ironsmith and many other dangerous activities are done by children that bring about heavy accidents that generally cost their life, and most of the time chickenhearted creature becomes the victims of their employers and other citizen. Working children become accustomed to factories where chemical, fuel smoke, dazzling light and deafening noise threaten their health and impede their overall development and growth.

In spite of the numerous losses that the harsh conditions of working motivate children, in return they will earn a very tiny amount of money, as it is measured by the agencies of children right commission that the owner gives 1500 Afghanis only per week, if the child is working entire day.

As the result of new United Nation-backed survey on 8th February 2012 it is obvious that most workers in Afghanistan’s brick kiln are bonded child laborers. They found that 56 percent of the brick makers in Afghanistan made up of children under the age of 18 and 47 percent are 14 years old or younger. The policy makers claims for a strategy that they have provided both relief for bonded families and help them finish the cycle of debt, dependence and poverty.

More over the brick kilns often stay on debt bondage and the workers and their families are tied to kiln incase to pay the loan which was taken off for basic medical needs, necessities, and other expenses. The families and child laborers are bought for the whole life as they are in never ended debt. The brick kilns enjoy big margin of the profit and instead the poor family and their children being tortured and limited for almost entire life.
ILO convention 182, which came in force in Afghanistan last year, identifies bonded labor as one of worst forms of child labor.

The survey which was conducted between august and October last year in Nangarhar and Kabul province found 64 percent of the families contacted had worked in the kilns for 11 years and 35 percent of them worked for 20 years. Nearly all of the households feel tired of bondage debt, but are powerless to pay the debt, along with they are not allowed to leave the job on their own, even though children and adults working more than 70 hours a week in the bad condition. The payments are too much less as daily wages are between 297 and 407 which is hard to survive. It is extremely difficult for bonded laborer to leave the vicious debt cycle.

From picking fruit to mining coal, loading and unloading donkeys, walking in dirty places, pulling and pushing heavy loads, movement of heavy stones and full day working in stuffy and sunny weather are written to the destiny of afghan child.

No care no social protection from government side or from family. The children are poorly treated by the whole community; they do not have their right even quarterly.

Children’s rights are the human rights of children with full attention for their social, economical, biological as well as the basic needs for food. It should be provided for them properly. Children have the right to an adequate standard of living. Better educations, protection from exploitation and harm, and their basic and economical needs, which contains parents that must maintain these facilities for their infants. Preparation of healthy food, appropriate shelters and cloths, and a warm bed for sleep which the children really require.

As well as their environmental, culture, political right should be delivered by the government and should play an important role in these areas. Suitable play ground, high standard education, and good management of schooling. Their right to participate in communities, programs, and services for themselves and society ought to deliberate by all organs in the country.

Afghanistan’s future will be compromised if the children miss out of their actual right. Children born like candle in country to bright the country, if abasement towards them continued so, the country will fall in darkness to face unexpected challenges and fallacious policies from each enemy.