Labors and Social Affairs Committee: Strict measures to reduce child labor

INA - Baghdad

Labor and Social Affairs Parliamentary Committee stressed the importance of implementing standards that limit the spread of child labor, while stressing the treatment of financial income for orphaned children and their families via 3 steps.

"The law prohibits the employment of children under 15 years of age because it deprives them of education and exploits them in illegal work and outside international standards," said the Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Representative Hussein Arab, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). 


Arab explained that "Iraq has signed treaties with the International Labor Organization and others that prevent the employment of children under 15 years of age and give them all their rights,”


He pointed out that "our parliamentary committee always urges the Ministry of Labor and its inspection committees to implement controls and standards to limit the spread of child labor," stressing that "the committee is against child labor and with their proper rehabilitation to ensure their safety and the integrity of their position within the central education plan,”

"The committee dealt with the issue of financial income for children from orphans and those below the poverty by welfare and social protection salaries," he noted adding, "during this fiscal year, we were able to sequentially increase welfare and social protection salaries by 25, 50 and 75 thousand, and it is possible that this could be filled  for a part of their own expenses as permitted by law,”


He included, "Children orphans of terrorist crimes were allocated salaries within the social welfare network or the rights of victims of terrorism, in addition to granting the families of the martyrs among the employees pension salaries,”