Social protection measures in the fight against child poverty and child labor

Child poverty and child labor are one of the main problems to be solved at the global level. The main reason to child poverty and child labor is the problem of poverty. Financial impossibilities of households cause children to work under bad, heavy, and dangerous conditions. Working under these conditions negatively affects their mental, physical and spiritual development, and prevents them from attaining the potential skills and equipment they can acquire in the future. Therefore, to help children to achieve healthy and personal development, preventive policies in terms of child poverty and child labor are needed to be implemented at global level. Prevention of child poverty and child labor primarily goes through the fight against poverty by developing poverty reduction strategies. In this context, conditional cash transfer, unconditional cash transfer, micro-credit applications, child-sensitive social protection programs, which are poverty reduction strategies such as public work programs, social health protection, unemployment protection, income security in old age, social protection for people with disabilities are implemented in many countries. Although significant progress has been made in the implementation of social protection and assistance programs in the fight against child poverty and child labour, the desired results have not yet been achieved at the global level. While differing from country to country, data on child poverty and child labor are far from being desired. In this context, in order to reach the desired targets, social protection programs should be increased and social protection systems should be expanded. Keywords: Poverty, Child Poverty, Child Labor, Social Protection