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Why is chilld labour an issue?

 * Its an issue because kids are being forced to work
 * Kids are dying from this
 * Children in 3rd world countries will have bad health conditions
 * Because they dont get to know what its like to have a childhood
 * Every child has a right not to work
 * All kids have the right to learn and be healthy
 * Every year 22,000 children die from accidents related to their work

Who is affected?

 * Chrildren in 3rd world counties
 * Parents of the kids
 * Families

Types of children labour.

 * selling things in the street
 * working in someone's house as a domestic servant
 * carrying heavy loads
 * dangerous machinery
 * spraying pesticides
 * working in unclean environments
 * slavery
 * buying and selling of a human being (called "human trafficking")
 * forced or bonded labour
 * armed conflict
 * prostitution
 * pornography
 * Selling and testing drugs

Reasons for becoming a child labourer

 * poverty causes parents to sell their child to a factory or mine
 * street children in Vietnam sell gifts in the street bringing all the money to unemployed parent
 * because of high unemployment and labour laws, it is easier for an adult to make a child work informally than for them to find a wage-paying job
 * Illness may also be a cause of child labour

Child labour involves

 * work performed by children under the age of 18 (depending on the country)
 * long hours of work on a regular or full-time basis
 * abusive treatment by the employer
 * no access or poor access to education

Child Soldiers

 * 300,000 Children are being used as child solders right now
 * Children are fighting in 19 conflicts right now
 * Abducted from their families and taken to war
 * Once taken they are used as soldiers, spies, scouts and sex slaves
 * Girls are soldiers and "wifes" to commanders beaten and raped
 * 2 million children have died in conflict since 1996

Soldiers

Convention on the Rights of the Child


UNICEF

UN Children rights

"A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights." - Carol Bellamy

• Around 120 million children in developing countries are not in primary school. More than 50 per cent are girls • More than five million children die from malnutrition each year • Some states are moving toward increasingly punitive systems of juvenile justice, with children beaten and arbitrarily detained by police and forced to share prisons with adults in inhumane conditions • Armed conflicts around the globe continue to shorten and ruin the lives of millions of children. The UN estimates that more than 250,000 children are exploited as child soldiers. Many of these children are killed or maimed in combat, and many children are forced to kill and maim others The human rights for children
 * Globally, almost 11 million children under the age of five die every year, mostly of easily preventable causes