Child labour in developing countries
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Child labor is prevalent in developing countries due to hunger, poverty, and unemployment. Parents struggling with hunger may sell or give away their children to work in factories or mines. While some laws allow child labor in family businesses, factories find ways around this by claiming distant relation. Areas with the most child labor include Africa, Arab states, and Asia. Children are also victims of human trafficking within and between countries.
Child labour in developing countries
- 1. Child labour in developing countriesWhy do children work?1Alejandra Vega Campos
- 2. Why they have to work?Hunger and PovertyLabour lawsHigh level of unemploymentParents may be too sick (HIV/AIDS)2Alejandra Vega Campos
- 3. HUNGER!Hunger and poverty cause parents to sell their child to a factory or a mine.Give them away to other families.3Alejandra Vega Campos
- 4. Labour LawsChildren are allowed to work in a family business. E.g. Factories usually find the way to declare that the child is a distant family member. 4Alejandra Vega Campos
- 5. High level of unemploymentMany have to work to survive and to help their families to survive .5Alejandra Vega Campos
- 6. PARENTS TOO SICK OR DECEASED.E.g. HIV/AIDS Has generated more than 14 million new orphans.6Alejandra Vega Campos
- 7. TourismChild sex tourism involves people who travel from their own country to another and engage in commercial sex acts with children. 7Alejandra Vega Campos
- 8. Areas with most child labour.AFRICA: 58.7 million children aged 5 to 17.ARAB STATES: An estimated 13.4 million child labourersAsia & Pacific: 1.4 million8Alejandra Vega Campos
- 9. How many children are trafficked and into which areas are they trafficked?Children are victims of trafficking within or into European countries , North America and other countries.9Alejandra Vega Campos
- 10. HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE FACTS10Alejandra Vega Campos
- 12. What are we doing to help these children...?What can we do?12Alejandra Vega Campos
Editor's Notes
- Hello my name is Alejandra Vega C.I am going to talkabout.
- International labour Organisation estimates there are 246 million child labourers worldwide.
- They think that by giving the children to others families they will be able to look after them. So many times those kids are very badly treated even sometimes sexually abused.
- E.g. The crime is typically fuelled by weak law enforcement and /or corruption.
- Also 8 million are living in slavery or debt bondage.Bondage is when their families ask for a loan the child has to work to pay it off.The reason that they hire a child is that they pay less money, they do difficult jobs andmake them work longer.
- More than 90% live in developing countries.
- In developing countries, corruption is the main reason why this happens, the laws are extremely weak.
- Africa has the worst forms of child labour (hazardous work)Other areas such as Eastern Europe, Russia and Latin America also engage in child labour.
- Adolescent girls between 13 & 17 years of age for sexual exploitationAlso children under 13 years of age for forced labour, begging and exceptionally for the sale of organs.
- An estimated 1.8 million children are trafficked each yearWith an area of operation that includes North America, Europe, Russia, & Central AsiaThe most common destinations: Thailand, Japan, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the US.