A short note on Right Against Exploitation PDF

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A Part of Right to Freedom (Arts. 23 & 24). As part of right to Freedom Constitution, through Articles 23 and 24. guarantees right against exploitation. It prohibits traf fic in human beings, sale purchase of men and women and child labour. Article 24 reads, child below the age of 14 years shall be ...

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A short note on Right Against Exploitation

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A Part of Right to Freedom (Arts. 23 & 24). As part of right to Freedom Constitution, through Articles 23 and 24. guarantees right against exploitation. It prohibits traf fic in human beings, sale purchase of men and women and child labour. Article 24 reads, child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or engaged in any other hazardous employment. As such forced labour is prohibited and children as a matter of Fundamental Rights. But in actual practice even today, the bonded labour exists in the country. The treatment which the bonded labour gets is inhuman, Similarly, child labour is banned but both in the organised and unorganised sectors, the factories and other works are flooded with children of tender age. All this is because there is no freedom from want. In other words, there is no economic independence. So in the absence of economic freedom, political and civic freedom remain meaningless for the masses. In the absence of right to work, right against exploitation and for that matter other freedoms are more pious hopes than a reality. The right to

work does not mean that everyone has to be given jobs in the Government. This is not possible. However, it certainly means that the State should make the economy so vibrant that it generates work for the unemployed....