They have also been affected for many years by wars and conflicts and have the highest numbers of children not at school. Years of conflict in Syria has seen a dramatic increase in poverty among Syrian families and forced more children into the labour force, especially as refugees face restrictions to legal work from host country governments. At least 85 million children do very hazardous work — forced labour, trafficking and bonded labour.
Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs across the world but about one million children work in mines in appalling conditions that can lead to injury or death.
Children also work on building sites and in brick-making factories without proper health and safety rules.
Children are at risk from machinery, chemicals, harsh working conditions and lots of other hazards. Those who are forced to become soldiers or are slaves are treated very badly and suffer terrible physical and mental harm and abuse, as well as sexual exploitation. Child domestic workers are also at risk of sexual abuse and violence. The most abusive forms of child labour become more widespread in conflict and emergency situations.
Children, especially boys, are abducted and forcefully recruited as child soldiers or domestic servants for militant groups. Girls are forced into sex slavery as "wives" for militants, or pushed into prostitution or transactional sex as a means of survival.
The international labour organisation: A definition of the issue of child labour. World day against child labour: An authoritative explanation on why this day exists. Some U. The effects of poverty in developing countries are often worsened by the large interest payments on development loans. The structural adjustments associated with these loans often require governments to cut education, health, and other public programs, further harming children and increasing pressure on them to become child laborers.
The University of Iowa Search. Poverty and unemployment levels are high. I believe you have done a great job at pinpointing why child labour still exists, to perhaps enhance your posts to give greater depth into this issue I would love to see a focus on a specific area or country which would allow for a more quantitative analysis of this issue to back up and solidify your qualitative research.
So thank you, for your informative response to my fledgling post. It has helped me and my blog immensely. HI I found this blog very interesting.
Child exploitation is such an issue and it is absolutely disgraceful! There needs to be some form of a record implemented in these high risk places to keep track of the children and if they go missing. In saying this i do know that it would be near impossible to account for all the children born in the world but even if it drastically reduced the availability for abduction of the children that would be great!
Thank you for your blog. Because children are easy to exploit and are cheap labourers, they are hired in preference to adults. Child labour thus leads to lower wages and higher unemployment among adults. Children who work and do not go to school will end up in low paid jobs later, and so will their children — and so the vicious cycle of poverty is perpetuated.
By no longer accepting it, not in mines, not on fields, not in factories, not in domestic settings and not in the products we buy…. Child labour is a global problem that requires a global solution.
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