Introduction:
Child labor is a serious problem as it was centuries ago, but it affects millions of children around the world. International, some 73 million children 5 years working in economic activity worldwide between age and children to 218 million shows all over the world between Labour Organisation statistics, 14 to 10 years old 17. the figures also do not include domestic work. Child labor problem is worst in Asia, where 44.6 million children have to work. Africa is better with about 23.6 million child laborers, and 5.1 million children work in Latin America.
14.4% of all children between the ages of children in India, 10 and 14 are working as laborers. China 11.6% in number in Bangladesh, and Pakistan is 17.7 percent, and Kenya's 41.3 percent, 30.1 percent., and domestic world, millions of child workers can be.
India is one of the worst offenders use child labor. The 1990s showed that there were about 11.3 million working children in India census fourteen, and their number has increased since then. The country's total child labor in India makes 3.6 percent of the workforce. Agricultural work in most jobs these children (about 85%). Much of northern India who work in carpet weaving industry in order to add to the family income in the children's society.
Working conditions are deplorable, but their families to avoid poverty, so that children have to work anyway. India is not a law that makes it illegal for minors to work for 14 years, but this law does not apply to family-owned companies. The law also rarely in the United States, the major industrial countries with the request due to the practical needs of many rural families living in country.Even, the head of child labor as a time raises that refuses to die beheaded snake. Just a year ago, the inspectors found dozens of workers at a meatpacking plant in Iowa plant and children of illegal immigrants. Plant workers discovered, do some work with knives at breakneck speed with almost no safety training that has been exposed to young, chemicals and products as forced 13. Many testified for 17 hours a day to get the endurance and reduce overtime. Guatemalan worker named Elmer was cut by the knife after being thrown by a supervisor. For each day of the violation of the right of every worker to perform their own individual. Plant workers receive services about a year, they could face fines of up to $ 1 million.
Children in other countries fighting quite as quick as they are unable to do justice in the United States:
Kyrgyzstan, a small country in Central Asia, suffered after the collapse of the Soviet economic wounds. In this once prosperous mining industry has become defunct. Many Kyrgyzans abandoned to live begun to coal mining. However, the tunnels, the miners fans, without proper excavation team could create significant length. Parents were forced to take their children to dig deep coal mines grew poverty.
Today, it is not known how many children Kyrgyzan employed as unofficial miners. However, that share the same feelings about mining quarry many locals. Kylych is $ 3 per day in the ears. The money feeds his family. He said that he can go to school, but he said that without his work, knows her family will be helpless. Kylych seen in his ears, and sometimes trapped himself. Zulfia 35. She is a widow with 5 children need to be fed less than $ 2 a day. After the death of her husband owns mines in the 10-year-old offered his job to his son. She refused, but what about the other people in the region, and as "desperate" situation for everyone. Uluk 14 and works at a local mine with his younger brother. Also wear a helmet to work, and a face obscured by dark mascara. Risk of combustion and hazardous gases mentioned as potential mines kill his brother. He wants his brother did not need to work, but she acknowledged that "some options." Uluk dreams so you can protect your children is to become a police officer.
Ivory Coast, where thousands of children and other children crop mail cocoa pods do not differ a twisted Marcus to enjoy chocolate by thousands. The Diabate was eleven and a locateur believe that to work on a farm cocoa in Ivory Coast when living in Mali. locateur will receive a bicycle for him to work there. He worked 12 hours a day and carrying bags of cocoa was so small there was no problem. Every time you hit the owner of the farm, known as "Big Man", paradoxically disease, beaten with branches in China or a case of a cycle. He was forced to sleep in a small room with 18 other children, and once the night, no one could leave the room. Ali Diabate end, the payment, and was returned to Mali after authorities broke man. He never received a bicycle. Unfortunately, currently it is difficult to avoid the many laws on child labor as shown in the examples above, it is prohibited to countries around the world. Children are forced to work because of poverty, lack of education, child labor laws and poor enforcement factors in their lives. Even the rules are enforced more strictly in that they may contain gaps, that such domestic or agricultural labor in a specific area of child labor. For example, children under the age of 14 can not legally work full time on economic work in Nepal, but the bricks are exempt from the law of clines. In both Kenya and Bangladesh, child labor laws do not apply to domestic or agricultural work. One of the biggest problems involved with child labor to prevent children ending a mental, physical, emotional and spiritual development.
