Human Intervention

An example of humanitarian intervention is the prevention of child labor. This humanitarian intervention aims to stop businesses or even organizations from hiring children. Whenever the media uses the images of children to invoke an emotional response from the world, an inaccurate perception is generated around the world. Children are normally portrayed as victims of misfortunes hence creating an uneven perception of child labor. Attempts to standardize the perception around child labor has often created a cultural and economic stiffness between third world and developed nations. Subsequently, this has prevented policymakers from coming up with sound policies on the issues concerning child labor. International media's opinion on child labor prevalence in Pakistan is used to demonstrate the difference between child labor in the developed world and the developing world. The variance in culture makes it hard to fight off child labor in an effective way (Khan, 2010). The divergent perceptions surrounding child labor stems from a mutual reality and accepted view on the issue. Based on UNICEF, child labor policies should be formulated from various experiences all over the world. That is defining the needs of the children should be dependent upon factual information and not emotional images depicted through the media.

 The development of certain attitudes toward child labor issues a certain way of ensuring that people unveil the root of the problem. This argument remains unchecked due to various aptitudes and inabilities perceived to be connected to childhood in various communities around the world (Khan, 2010). Most of the time, child labor policies depend on the ability to comply with regulations and the timely actions taken by the government to come to terms with the present issues faced by children. Childhood experiences are reliable because they are similar and do not fluctuate from one country to another.

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Khan, A. (2010). Discourses on childhood: Policy‐making with regard to child labour in the context of competing cultural and economic preceptions. History and Anthropology, 21(2), 101-119.