Why is there a general focus on eliminating only the worst forms of child labour?
The ruling idea is still that child labour is a consequence of poverty and necessary for a family to survive. This results in the belief that two important values clash: the right to education and the right to survival. Consequently the latter is considered preferable from the presumption that poverty makes it impossible for children to attend regular daytime education. Immediate elimination of all forms of child labour is not possible in the short term, according to the poverty argument. A direct ban on all forms of child labour would endanger the survival of poor families. Complete elimination of all forms of child labour can, according to the poverty argument, only be realised when poverty has diminished worldwide. Organisations that work from the perspective of the poverty argument are therefore prioritising on the prevention and exploitation of the worst forms of child labour: slavery, forced labour, trafficking, prostitution and pornography, the use of children in drug and/or oth
