Apparently, survivality stands for “Right to Live”. Depending on the objective, the term “child labor” has many definitions. Unluckily, this means that there is no way to give a concrete, rock-solid definition of child labor. Definition of the term “Child Labor: The full-time employment of children who are under a minimum legal age. The International Labor Organization, or the ILO, defines child labor as “some types of work” done by children under the age of 18. The ILO also says that child labor includes full-time work done by children under 15 years of age that prevents them from going to school (getting an education), or that is dangerous to their health. Other sources and organizations differ on what child labor is. Some say that it is only hazardous work or work that interferes with a child’s education, while others are broader and include any work done by children working for pay. Why Does Child Labor take place? Poverty is the main cause why families throw their children to work. Unfortunately, a system in which children are sent to work at a very young age and deprived of basic education will only maintain and even exacerbate the cycle of poverty that is pushing these children to work in the first place. The literature on child labor in Bangladesh presents several examples of this cycle of poverty. There are children who are born into a state of burden and sometimes the parents do not even know the details of the original transaction. According to many of the cases, it seems that even minimum education would prevent the poor from taken advantage of so often. In numerous cases, the parents of a child cannot find jobs because they are scarce, forcing them to make their children work instead. Children are more easily employed because they can be paid less than adults can, and because they are more obedient and easier to exploit. Occasionally, greedy employers choose to dishonestly employ children because they are easy to abuse, they cost less, and they do not complain as much. For some poor families, the government does not provide education, health care, or a way for them to earn money to get out of their poverty. This can force them to send their children to work. Some families even believe that child labor is not harmful to a child, encouraging them to send their children to work. In general, poverty is the main reason for the problem of child labor. Although, no one could dispute that poverty is a factor, it is very important to understand that depending on the country, there are some other social factors that contribute to the problem perhaps just as much as poverty does. Why Use Child Labor? Because children are: • less demanding • more obedient • less likely to resist or object • easily taken advantage of • require lower pay • not protected by the law or its representatives From the point of the child or the family who sends their child to work the direct cause is poverty or lack of any alternatives. The truth is that the amount of money children can make is usually very small. Large portions of children are not paid at all or are paid so little that the difference it makes in their families income is small. It is even more terrible when children are forced to work to pay off parents' debts Consequences of Child Labor: The social cost for the poor countries is the real tragedy because without providing their children with education, more children will inevitably be drawn into these types of working situations. Child labor without education depletes these countries from the potential of their future leaders and skilled laborers. In reality, if we prohibit Child Labor, it did more harm than good. Parents now send their children to the brickworks and into metalworking companies. The families need the money to survive. Because of the reality of the poor in developing countries. In countries that do not have benefit systems, income or child support for example or some of the technology or infrastructure advances we have in the western world - how can we have a universal approach to such a responsive and difficult issue? The acceptance and acknowledgment of the fact that child labor exists and has to be dealt with in a more mature way would be a big step, also a strategic one towards rethinking our labor laws and codes of conduct. Purpose of Child Labor Law : The specific purpose of child labor laws is to safeguard children against harm generally associated with child labor, such as exposure to hazardous & unsanitary. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. Around the world, approximately 250 million children are child laborers. Concluding Remarks: Children who are forced to labor are not criminals; they are victims of an unjust, unequal society. We must adopt a more enabling and empowering strategy that does not treat child workers as the problem, but include them as a part of the solution. We would welcome a initiative that will: • Improve the quality of life of working children • get working children's views and concerns into consideration • resolve the basic causes of child labor • Ensure that strategies are comprehensive, sustainable, feasible and suitable • Set up obligatory monitoring systems that will ensure that strategies will address all the above The question arises and is a currently a heated debate as to whether to completely abolish child labor or simply regulate it? Others worry that if it is only regulated the problem will remain. Considering the fact that the current laws are not upheld or enforced, this argument has several significance, which no one can avoid.