I saw one of my favorite TV programm weekly..Today’s topic is about child labour.
There are over 2 milions of children who work in the world…1 out of 6 children working under the forcing severe conditions. They don’t go to school, they work for more than 8 hours without resting, not given proper foods & education. There are half of population of children in the world working for wages only under $2 per a day. Generally, the rate of child labour is higher where incomes are low. Because children can’t go to school due to works, thus they can’t read or write. When they are grow up and become adults, they won’t hire for good wages and can’t emerge from poverty. Of course there is also exceptional and this is only example. Not all children aren’t like that. Why do they do labour? Because his/her is poor and need to support the family thus parents sell thier children. Most of parent aren’t educated as well as so, parent doesn’t understand why children need to go to school but they should work.
At 70% of most common child labour is agriculture…One example is in Egypt. They wake up at 1 oclock in the morning to pick up Jasmine because to get highest quality of perfum, it should have good humidity time to pick them up at night . In India, there are many children working at a carpet factory, children are used “because they have a good at it and useful”, however, this is only believed the veiw point from buyers… The children work from morning til night everyday same as adults. A boy Binodai sold for 300 rupy ($6) by his parent, some children kidnapped. Thier foods are always unhygenic thus everytime those children are sick and having diarrhrea. They have not given any medicine whatso ever conditions. They always wear same clothes adn dirty… Next is in a surburb of Guatemara city, in Guatemara, South America, they work at fireworks manifacture factory with doesnt say proper factory like in a hut when they turn to 6 or 7 years olds. They work without any safety for 10 hours. Rennee ahe 9 years old boy says ” My back ache after working for 2 hours. Masa, 6 had severe burning at all her bodyes while she worked and had explored it.
One of the guest a lady asked ” Is it possible to diminish these child labours? And the vice-president answered; ” ILO strives to abolish to prevent of ”labours of health development obstruction” “labours of denger” and “debt labours” from the worst dengerous by 2016.” The presenter asks ” What is the debt labours? ” The lady said “ Employer knows that parents are very poor and emploer lend money on interest to the parents which the ammount parents can’t repay a lot. The reason for the debt, children needs to work.
Look at India again, the area is called Siarkot ( I do not know exact spelling), children of 3000 works there. Asif is a 12 years old boy who has been working there for 4 years.
” I was scared to see people who had blood while they were working and I wanted to quit the job but I can’t stop this job because I still have the debt for parents.”
This boy’s prarent have a debt for $830, the boy makes about 150 of medical apparatus to repay for a day. However, he only can get $9 per day. Other place, in Filozaroad area children works at glass factory about 200oo kids. They work to weld glass bralets from eary morning at 4 am till evening with thier parents. The room is small and always percade poisonous smoke in the room which children become sick like pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis.
One of the biggest problem is a case for maids of children. ILO have difficuties to investgate into the actual conditions of those young children. Many people may imagine that maids works at rich house but actually not..poor family hire poor family…Those children work with condition as free of foods and staying ..without not much of wages…some girls/boys gets violences or sexual harrasments. In 1993, one of the american assembly member submiitted the idea of law which is ” we don’t import any goods which those children made” , then one of the close factory in Bangladesh had panicked and the employer dismissal all children suddently. The result of those became more harder after this. Some girls needed to be prositution or works more harder than previous job.
There is a successgul stories too. Making succer balls helped Pakistani children!
ILO (InternationalLabour Organization) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. (reffered ILO)
Many goverment tries to work out this problesm but it just takes long time processes…
I remember this video at my old blog and deleted it once. Now I think it is time to share this right now. This boy is from Yemen 12 years old Jamar who work for all day without going to school…Even he works, he still has a hope to be a doctor or a pilot oneday.
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