عمالة الأطفال في سوق كسلا-السودان : دراسة ميدانية

الملخص EN

A field study of child labor In the market of Kassala City - Sudan The study of child labor within the market of Kassala, Sudan, which is a field study aimed at knowing, diagnosing and investigating the factors contributing to the exacerbation of the phenomenon at the economic and social level.

The study used a number of research methods recognized in studies such as the case study method, the analytical descriptive method, and the content analysis method.

The study also supported the mechanisms of Such as personal observation, interview, focus group, and research in published and unpublished sources related to the subject of the study.

The study reached the most important results, the most important of which is that the reasons for the existence of child labor in Kassala city are the result of several overlapping and connected factors with each other in the form of a circular ring that is difficult to separate its parts, including the economic conditions, which take the lion’s share In terms of impact, as well as multi-faceted social factors, such as that most children work in Kassala for a period of (12) hours per day, and this exceeds the permissible limit internationally, which has physical and psychological effects in the future, and that most children suffer from government neglect represented in their lack of material and moral support.

The study came out with a number of interim recommendations, including the annual development plans of the state A special program for children working in the Kassala city market (rehabilitation, training and education), as well as the enactment of strict laws and legislation to determine the official working hours for child labor in accordance with permissible international conventions, as well as the principle of family containment that must be dealt with by parents not moving away from their children and thinking with them out loud in solving their problems and supporting Children morally and financially and support poor families in the peripheral and popular neighborhoods to try to reduce the presence of the phenomenon and contribute to solving the phenomenon economically and socially within the city of Kassala.