A concern of child labour exists from poverty. We have to
understand as why children go to work. If parents don't send their children to work I am sure factories will not be able to
consume them. Why poor parents feel children as their assets who will earn money for their home?
Are they forced
by their parents to go to work? If yes why?
An appeal to International society
International socieities and organisation need to understand real porblems behind child labour and come
forward to solutions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Has child prostitution increased? Have torurism and internet helped
to promote?
Child
labour: Personal stories (By freethechildren)
Some percentage
of child labour comes from brutality/ harassments by parents or stepparents. They are mainly from urban areas of poors. This
percentage is too less and easily controllable by penalties to such parents and children rights. But rural poverty and lack
of employment or partial employment and illiteracy has given birth to majority of child labour problem.
Nearly 30% of population in poor countries are poorest of poor who are not even able to earn enough for one day food with
big family have to largely depend on children to earn and feed. Parents of these children are mainly illiterate or semi literate
are unable to find jobs, which can provide enough salary. Dream of education to children is impossible unless suitable employment
opportunities made available to at least one person in the family. Simply by opening schools and providing books are not sufficient
measures. We need to understand the reason behind child labour that is poverty and unemployment. Minimizing poverty and creation
of more and more suitable jobs to parents are the only solution of eradication of majority of child labour problem.
http://sadashivan.com/childlabourblog/ 37% say poverty, 33%
say Over populated family 10% poll for Government policy failure, 6% weak
law to protect, 2% say parent's unemployment and 1% say high education and
living cost. 37 percent of Total vote in child labor POLL
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180-200 million children work in hazardous condition. It is estimated, nearly 3-3.5 hundred thousand children are soldiers that includes boys and girls. Almost 200,000 Nepalese girls, many under the age of 14, are sexual slaves in India, according to ECPAT International.
Prostitution among the children who live and work on the streets of Latin
America -- their number is estimated to 40 million (due to poverty)
Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children. Who migrate to
cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs.
Child labour issue can not be dealt until and unless concerned organizations
influence appropriate Governments to reevaluate the economic policies and rural
economic growth. Till now rural economy is only known as agricultural economy
and never emphasized on add-on value products. Governments have to consider
growing and generating rural employment. Target set for 2015 to eradicate
poverty may not be achieved until we understand roots and real causes of
poverty. Why child goes to work? This situation is most urgent to be
taken care!!! Child goes to work only when parents allow. And why parents seek
own child's support to sustain home economy? This is what in my opinion
Governments need to understand and bring policies in accordance.
Need attention to identify areas for job
creation in rural villages. Many areas in agriculture and cottage industries
yet to be identified which can generate employment. For rural illiterate and
semiliterate population the job creation should be linked to their skills like
handloom and handicraft sectors,
packing and processing agricultural products, hand tools and related, tourism,
aurvedic medicines, like such there are many resources can promote employment
resources. Agricultural and forest add on value products are most neglected
and research on this subject is least in most countries. Please check the
facts and figures on poverty among rural population and their children:-
Habitat for Humanity International---
Rural poverty and housing The facts:-
75% of the world's poor, live in rural areas. Low-income families often lack
access to education, health care and decent, affordable housing. For many it
is a long walk from their home to school, to collect water or to go to a
health centre. Poverty in Africa is predominantly rural. 70% of rural
populations in West and Central Africa are poor. In South and East Africa, 145
million people live in poverty – roughly 75% of the rural population. In South
Asia, 31% of the population live on US $1 per day, down from 41 percent in
1990. In East Asia and the Pacific, 16 percent live on US $1 per day, down
from 30 percent in 1990. A study of rural and urban poverty in Europe found
that while the urban poor were twice as numerous as the rural poor, the level
of poverty was worse in rural areas. In the Latin America and the Caribbean
area, income distribution is the most unequal in the world. The richest 10% of
the population earn 48% of the income, while the poorest 10% earn less than 2%
of income.
Countries & Regions(The World Bank) :- Activities By Country - Data,
projects and research.
Hunger Facts: International(bread.org):-
Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related
causes--one child every five seconds. Every year, more than 20 million low-birth
weight babies are born in developing countries. These babies risk dying in
infancy, while those who survive often suffer lifelong physical and cognitive
disabilities.
The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics
library.thinkquest.org :- Every year 15 million children die
of hunger. One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S.
goes to bed hungry every night. Half of all children under five years of age in
South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished. About
183 million children weigh less than they should for their age.
CHILD HUNGER facts and figures (WFP):-
Every five seconds a child dies because she or he is hungry. Undernutrition in
children under the age 18 affects an estimated 350 to 400 million children. For
21 dollars you can feed a hungry child in school for a year. More than 70
percent of the world’s 146 million underweight children under age five years
live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia
alone. 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year.
Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths. One out
of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries are
underweight. WFP provided school meals and/or take home rations to 20.2 million
children in 71 countries in 2006. It is estimated that 684,000 lives child
deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc.
Iron deficiency is the most common form of malnutrition, affecting 180 million
children aged under four. Iodine deficiency is the main cause of brain damage in
the early years of a child's life. The Reality of
Hunger(feedingchildrenbetter.org):- 40% of all emergency
shelter food recipients are children, although they represent only 25% of the
U.S. population. 13 million kids live in households that do not have an adequate
supply of food. A child who is unequipped to learn because of hunger and poverty
is more likely to be poor as an adult. Children who are hungry are less likely
to become productive citizens. Center on Hunger and Poverty. Hungry children
have a harder time learning in school, shorter attention spans, and suffer more
absences due to illness.
Nearly 40 - 50% children among working-children
are street children. These children survive by begging, stealing, shoe
polish, street performance, collecting scraps, street selling and other. Some,
particularly girls, get involved into the flesh trade. The majority of children
on the streets in developing countries are rural migrants. Children migrate
with their parents and as a result of worst economical condition of parents, get
involved into odd jobs. Some percentage comes alone to urban cities due to bad
environment in their own home such percentage is less. Major percentages of such
children get addicted to use of drugs and their main work is scrap collection or
stealing. With girls it is serious issue as rural poor illiterate parents
abandon girl child to end up life in brothel or street prostitution and of them
some escape to streets begging, scrap collection and finally end up as
prostitutes. In developing countries; girl child is considered as disgrace in
poor illiterate orthodox uncivilized families. Nearly half of street beggars and
garbage collectors are girl children. Most such girls are neglected by parents
as are considered burden on them.
Urban children who turn as street children are
10% to 20% of street children. Family economical condition or unpleasant
abusive environment or abandoned by parents or mental disorder are the major
reason for them to leave home. Number of street Children on account of
unpleasant abusive parents in Brazil, U.K, U.S.A, and Mexico are extremely high.
Aggressive Movies and TV channel environment too
has contributed spoiling children to source money through ugly street jobs for
drug addiction; become street children. Also friend circle or family alcoholic
habit stimulates children to taste such life.
(All above information is only my views observing and
contacting urban and rural street children, may not be accurate).
Click below link for detailed facts and
figures from various websites and sources for child prostitution - trafficking,
and street children; clearly indicate that number of child prostitution and
street children are increasing each day, each month and each year. Arresting
child labor in factories in several countries have opened numerous fields for
young children to opt alternate ways of sourcing money. New fields like
pornography, sex tourism, plastic items, plastic bags and garbage collection,
begging in streets, pick pocketing. Involvement of young children in these areas
is much-much more than what figures show. Collection of facts and figures is
tough job and may not achieve accuracy as such activities are hidden and illegal
and fear of getting caught by authorities does not help revealing correct
numbers. They can be seen in railway stations, national bus stops, retail
markets, main road sides, city garbage dumping places, over and under bridges,
unauthorized settlement areas, and in brothel areas.
http://www.sadashivan.com/factsandfigures/
U.S. Congress Cites Growing World Problem of "Street Children"
:-
More than 100 million children worldwide are living hand-to-mouth, bereft of family and homes, and are "particularly vulnerable to abuse" in countries as wide-ranging as Uganda, Zimbabwe, Brazil and the Philippines, Representative Christopher Smith, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Africa Subcommittee said September 13. between 32,000 and 52,000 children known as "night commuters" travel from war-torn areas of Uganda "each night to urban centers to avoid abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army," a rebel movement that has battled the central government for more than 10 years. Democratic Republic of Congo, Denehy said, "between 25,000 and 50,000 child refugees, war orphans and other children, widely perceived to be street thugs, are accused of witchcraft or sorcery. They live on the streets throughout the country, and engage in petty crime, begging and/or prostitution." For Africa, Alton gave the following figures for street children: Kenya, 250,000; Ethiopia, 150,000; Zimbabwe, 12,000. And he said that many street children have been forced to serve as child soldiers, suffering death or terrible wounds. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he said, the United Nations estimates that 30,000 children under the age of 12 are under arms, making up 10 percent of the armed groups in the region. At the same time, Alton said, "20,000 children are believed to live on the streets in the DRC capital, Kinshasa."
There are an estimated 200-300 million child workers globally !!!
Child labour facts and figures:-
CHILD
LABOUR TODAY (corrystuart.com)
Although the internationally recommended minimum age for work is 15 years (ILO
Convention No. 138) and the number of child workers under the age of 10 is far
from negligible, almost all the data available on child labour concerns the
10-to-14 age group. Combining various official sources, the ILO estimates that
more than 73 million children in that age group alone were economically active
in 1995, representing 13.2 per cent of all 10-to-14 year olds around the world.
The
World Day Against Child Labour 2007 (scout.org) The
International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 70% of child labour is
found in this sector and the most recent Global Monitoring Report on Education
For All indicated that more than 80% of out-of-school children are in rural
areas.
Child Labour Facts and Figures(wfsnews.org): agriculture is one of the three most perilous work sectors. Yet, the
world over, more than 132 million girls and boys aged between 5 to 14 years are
employed in crop and livestock production
Sex Trafficking: Facts & Figures(globalissues.net)
The United Nations estimates that 700,000 to 4 million women and children are
trafficked around the world for purposes of forced prostitution, labor and other
forms of exploitation every year.
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Recent figures from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) show
that:Globally, 1 in 6 children work 218 million children aged 5 - 17 are
involved in child labour world wide. 126 million children work in hazardous
conditions. The highest numbers of child labourers are in the Asia/Pacific
region, where there are 122 million working children. The highest proportion of
child labourers is in Sub Saharan Africa, where 26% of children
(49 million) are involved in work.
Child labour online (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
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Amnesty.org.uk Torture or other ill treatment not only harms the victim,
it brutalizes the perpetrator and the societies that allow it to happen. In
2006, we reported cases of torture or ill-treatment in 102 countries including
China, USA, Iran and Algeria.
Child Labor - Agriculture (Human Rights
Watch):- Of nearly 218 million children engaged in child labor around the world,
the vast majority—69 percent, or some 150 million—are working in agriculture.
Child agricultural workers frequently work for long hours in scorching heat,
haul heavy loads of produce, are exposed to toxic pesticides, and suffer high
rates of injury from sharp knives and other dangerous tools. Their work is
grueling and harsh, violating their rights to health, education, and protection
from work that is hazardous or exploitative. ... Facts About Child Soldiers (Human rights
watch):- Today, as many as 300,000 children under the age of
18 serve in government forces or armed rebel groups. Some are as young as eight
years old. Both girls and boys are used as child soldiers. In case studies in El
Salvador, Ethiopia, and Uganda, almost a third of the child soldiers were
reported to be girls. Girls may be raped, or in some cases, given to military
commanders as "wives."
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Child labour helpline:-
Helpline India -
A toll free 24-hour telephone help line 1098 for
children in distress can be accessed in 72 cities of the country. CACL
Central Secretariat: C/o- PECUC, VIII-H-26, Sailashree Vihar ,Bhubaneswar - 21,
Orissa, India., Tel: 0674 - 2740178 Fax : 0674 - 2740432.
Regional information gateway (CRIN) -
Child Rights Information Network - Hover over a
region for a list of sub-regions. Selecting a sub-region will then take you to a
page containing relevant resources. If you know someone who employs children,
report him/her immediately! - in Police - in the nearest Center for Social Work
- on the toll-free SOS helpline for children and youth 0800 1 22 22 - in the
free Legal Service of the Embassy Megjashi, on phone number 02/2463 900. CWIN
Help-Line (Nepal) Emergency Relief and Counseling Service for Children:- Hotline
Telephone number 977-1-271-000 is used for this service.. YONECO Child Helpline
Zomba - 80001234: Apart from the Toll Free Number, young people will also have a
number of other facilities that include: * Email: helpline@yoneco.org.mw *
Newsletter: YONECO Voice, P.O. Box 471, Zomba * SMS: sms@yoneco.org.mw * Post
mail YONECO Helpline, P.O Box 471, Zomba * Face to face counselling is available
currently in Zomba, Balaka, Mangochi and Machinga, at the YONECO offices. There
are plans to expand the services to other district of operations while also
collaborating with other stakeholders like police and social welfare. *
Community outreach interventions * Advocacy on child rights * Youth Ambassadors
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Tribes are socially rich economically poor. Most tribes live in below poverty line. Read their culture as why
they need forests. Do not forget to click pictures
in this site to view traditional tribal dance.
This throbbing short story of a EUNUCH was once submitted to U.N.O on June 12th
of 1989 for appropriate action. Thanks to U.N.O for its understanding in reply dated October 24th of 1989 for its
support and its action to protect this unwanted human. With the effort of Government and U.N.O
Serious problem to the uneducated and semi educated workers
of undeveloped and underdeveloped countries, whose main exports are agricultural/ textiles and carpets and products of cottage
industries
Munsyari mountain village in India has about 21 villages each has population of about 80 families
totaling around 300 people in each with high rate of unemployment !!!!
