Awareness campaign starts in Syria’s Hasakah to limit child labor
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the Office of Child Protection in Armed Conflicts in Hasakah, northeast Syria, started an awareness campaign to reduce child labor.
Awareness brochures and billboards were distributed in the first day of the campaign in the city.
The campaign, which will last for three days, was launched under the motto “We entrust our children and their future to you, so that they only study and learn.”
“We addressed the residents and employers in the city in our first day of the campaign today,” said Khaled Jabr, co-head of the Child Protection Office in Armed Conflicts in Hasakah.
“There are jobs that the child was allowed to engage in, such as working in libraries and electronic work, under certain controls, based on the circular issued by the Child Protection Office in northeast Syria,” he told North Press.
“Children are being exploited largely to work in the industrial area, and in various jobs that do not suit their ages,” he added.
The circulars issued by the Autonomous Administration “reduce child labor in dangerous occupations,” Jabr told North Press last March.
“The child from 15 to 18 may be sent to work without dropping out of school,” according to Jabr.
The child, during the specified age, has the right to learn in certain professions, such as mobile and computer stores, pharmacies and electronics, for a maximum period of 6 hours, Jabr had earlier noted.
Child labor in the city of Hasakah has increased due to the economic conditions that many families have been experiencing for about ten years, in addition to the city hosting thousands of displaced people.