What is Child labour?

Child labour is when children are harmed. Continuetolearn.com states ‘Around the world and the U.S, growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work’. This means that children are being kidnapped and are forced to work for the rich or the children are looking for a job and they willingly follow their kidnapper.

What is the cause of Child Labour?

Child labour starts because men are greedy. Men want money. However, they are also lazy. To avoid working to get more money, they kidnap children to do their dirty work. Child labour mostly happens in Asia, Africa, and in the Pacific. In NZ, child labour does not occur here. That is because NZ’s government does not tolerate it. To be sure that children are being fairly treated, the government probably reviews Human Right Laws and Children’s Human Rights.

What characteristics do Child labour involve?

Child labour involves violating a nation’s minimum age laws and threatening children’s physical, emotional and mental well being. Continuetolearn.com also states that Child labour involves intolerable abuse, child slavery and more. Not only that, children who are being forced to work are missing out on their education.

What are children being forced to do?

Children are forced to do many things. One of them is collecting cocoa in the Ivory coast. Another job they have to do is collect bananas in Ecuador. Not only that, children in Brazil have to get oranges and then give it to the companies. These jobs are difficult to finish because the countries have extreme weather. However, luckily for the children, they can face extreme weather. Unlike, most children.

How are some children protected from smugglers?

The children are protected by the government. The government knows everyone’s Human Rights, including children's. The government does not tolerate any action of child labour. Some agencies go to other countries and try to protect as many children as they can.

Are agencies making any progress against child labour?

Agencies have made a lot of progress. Many children have been saved by smugglers because of agencies. Most children who were saved were mostly from India, Indonesia and the Philippines.

16 Millions of Austrians are not aware that tobacco they smoke that are imported originally come from child labour nations.

About 85 million children all over the world are engaged in dangerous and hazardous work. It has been stated that the sub-Saharan African region has the second highest number of people who work as smugglers. The number of smugglers in 2012 was 59 million. Statistics say that most African countries are smuggling children age 5 - 17 to work in hazardous work. About 10.4 percent is working in hazardous work. The ILO (International Labour Organization) says that 60% of child labour is accounted by agriculture. Borgenproject.org states ‘Only one out of five children involved in child labour is paid for his/her work’. This means that very few children get paid while the rest are being forced to work for nothing. The worst of child labour occurred in 10 countries in 2012. 4 of them were Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea and Myanmar. The rest are all located in Africa: Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi and Zimbabwe. Children in Ethiopia are in a form of child labour. Most children are working for the mining industry. The mining industry includes one of the biggest dangers for children.

Image resource:

http://www.aworldatschool.org/issues/topics/Child-labour

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Information resources:

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html

http://borgenproject.org/10-child-labor-facts/

By Maranita