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In Mexico

Although mexico is below the average of working children of latin american countries still, the situation is worrying. 4 million out of the 29 million of children work in mexico, the greatest part is between the ages of 14-17. 870, 000 are under the age of 13 statistics show that the numbers in the countryside of working children is almost twice than in the city. Studies show that working children are more likely to drop out school. However, child labor has decreased in the last decade, because of social programs and better educated parents. Mexico is below the average of the latin american countries.

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In Guatemala

Guatemala has more of 20% of their children in child labour, making it one of the worst countries in latin america. this is caused by poverty, and among other important factors the civil war that took place in there for 36 years. NGO’s work to reduce these situation.

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In India

India is home of the largest number of working children in 2001 the count was in 12.59 million of children the main cause is poverty, caused by the overpopulation in there. The law prohibits children to work under the age of 18. Also NGO’s work to reduce the child labour situation.

Real Testimony

How can you contribute?

You might be thinking: “Oh, but there is nothing I can do to help, I’m just a boy/girl!”

Well, there are a number of solutions with which we can contribute to make this problem smaller. Remember, little by little we can make a big difference.

There have been lots of clothing companies accused of employing child labour in the manufacture of their products. What can you do, you ask? Well, no one will produce what no one buys… So, the answer is pretty simple: don’t buy merchandise that has a background of child labour use. Also research about the clothes and products you buy! you may be surprised where child labour can be found...

You can use websites such as Firmhugger (firmhugger.com), where you can find a list of green products and ethical companies, where you can be sure never has been and never will be child labour.

What is our solution?

As always, we can find a big solution to this problem in education. We need to promote education in this sort of places so that children may learn and develop new abilities and knowledge, this will allow this kids to aspire to better jobs and gain economicall stability. This is a hard task because one of the many reasons why children don’t go to school is because they are forced to work to bring money to their families. We propose the implementation of a programme that not only gives free education to this children, but also gives some kind of financial aid to their families (feeding the students, giving them books, etc.) so that their families have one less thing to worry about.

Another solution we propose is to give tools to big companies to address child labour problems so that action is taken immediately. This because many companies have their operations center far away from the countries that actually make their products (clothing, gadgets, makeup, etc.) so they can’t have a direct eye in their overseas workers and don’t know exactly if they’re doing illegal things like this.

Our last solution is simple, widen the boundaries of the protection laws. Children may have thought about running away or just stop working to dedicate their lives to something else, but most of them don’t because they don’t have anywhere to run and no one who can protect them. We would like to support the incrementation of organizations that give children the humanitarian rights they rightfully deserve, besides protection against the people who have them enslaved against their will.

Like this one: https://love146.org/

Who deals the Problem?

The main organization is International Labor organization (ILO).

This one has a subdivision called International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). This one is in charge specifically on Child labour.

It was created in 1992 with the goal of eliminate child labour.

It promotes worldwide to combat child labour but currently it is operating in 88 countries.

Inside this organization there exist a subdivision in each included country which ensures that they are promoting an help combat child labour.

The UN and other organizations developed the international convention on child labour. This is an agreement between countries which each year is taken apart. The governments who are inside this agreement should incorporate it in their own laws.

¨The Convention defines a child as anyone below the age of 18 years and spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere should have, including the right to protection from economic exploitation (Article 32) and the right to education (Article 28).¨, according to the UN.

The Situation in the world

- Did you know that currently there are 168 million children in the world working under age 18?

- Did you know that Sub´Saharan Africa is the region with most cases of child labour? There are approximately 59 million children under labour, in other words 21% of children population the the region.

- Did you know that here are around 13 million children that suffer from child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean. Almost 8.8% of children population

- Did you know that in the Middle East and North Africa there are 9.2 million cases of child labour?

- Did you know that there are 77.7 million cases of child labour in Asia and the Pacific?

- Did you know that the sector with more active child labour is agriculture (99 million cases)? followed by services (54 million cases) and then industry (12 million cases).

- Did you know that 85 million children are currently working in terrible conditions? almost life-threatening.

- Did you know that the worst countries regarding child labour are: Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Burundi, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Democratic republic of Congo, Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Child labour is a great indicator for all countries and regions of the world. It shows a lot about a country. In some cases you don’t even need to research information it to know their current situation. Just by watching how many of these cases it has says it all about their political, economical and social organization.

Main consequences

Child labour is not just about taking away their education and their development, is taking away their childhood. Having immature ad inexperience child working can has long term risk. Physical injuries and mutilations happen very often due to the lack of experience in mining, factories, farms, etc. Long-term health problems such as respiratory diseases, cancer, etc. Due to work with dangerous chemicals. Sexual diseases due to the lack of education in that area, also many children are forced into prostitution every year. This brings other consequences such as pregnancy, drug addiction and mental illness. Malnutrition are a result of excess of labors with not having enough food consumption. In conclusion by not having the correct education it increments poverty, which this affects economies and the country losses competitiveness, productivity and potential income.

Main Causes

Child labour isn’t something new in history. The world has seen a lot of times this event take place going all the way back from the Industrial Revolution (1800) to now, present 2015.

The repeating of this event until modern time shows us that history due repeats itself. But, what are the causes that make any human being be in favor of this exploitation? or at the very least, in favor of doing so?

You would think, naturally, that the main cause for child labour is poverty or unemployment, that in fact are true, but the root of the problem consist of poverty and education.

Did you know that every new year a person stays in school it has a 10% probability of having a better salary? But what happens when you cannot have and education, what happens when the government cannot provide you with this basic right?

People which can't or doesn’t have and education in all its ambits (social, history, maths) will grow without an essential opportunity to make a better life and in most of the cases will not reach the basic requirements in which a human being should live in. Also lacking a sense of “morality” they will try to get money from everywhere they can. Some may join a drug cartel or the mafia but in some cases they will do what probably their parents did with them. Using them as a way to get money, making them work long turns without receiving a “paycheck” or anything in return. They could over-exploit them and in some point, they wouldn't d¡feel guilty about it. In the end they are surviving.

This is how the lack of an essential human right as education can lead to poverty (as many other problems) and in this case, child labour.

Other causes are: violation and no enforcement in laws.

What is Child Labour?

Sometimes it has been misunderstood and taking in account participation that doesn't have any harm on them. It doesn't has an impact in their health, education or any personal development.

So the real meaning of child labour is when is mentally, physically, socially, or morally dangerous to children. Also when it interferes with schooling by prevailing them from attending to school, obligate to leave school early. And finally have excessive long and heavy work. In extreme forms it can involve children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to hazards and illnesses. This often occurs at a very early age.

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