Characteristic of child labor

  • Violates a nation’s minimum age laws
  • Threatens children’s physical, mental, or emotional well-being
  • Involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, or illicit activities
  • Prevents children from going to school
  • Uses children to undermine labor standards


http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html



Facts on child labor

  • One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.

  • In the least developed countries, 30 percent of all children are engaged in child labor.

  • Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions, often enduring beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers.

  • An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work.

  • The highest proportion of child laborers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 26 percent of children (49 million) are involved in work.
http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/child-labor-quick-facts.htm

What countries take part in child labor?

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Introduction

Child labor harms children and keeps them from attending school. Throughout history, the seperations of the rich and poor have forced millions of children into child labor. Underage children work all sort of jobs around the world because their families are suffering extreme poverty.

Niko: Child labor is a major issue that must be dealt with. Child labor is spread through out the world. There are many perspectives on child labor. People believe that child labor has postive and negative effects. Even though child labor is such a big topic, people and organizations have a hard time getting rid of it.

Travis: Child labor is immoral. they take away the dignity of the children by making them work in horrible conditions. Many governments around the world do not take a lot of action to child labor because there is a fear that their economy will collapse. since organizations are trying to stop child labor their voices are never heard my their own government.

Second Post Assignment - CST #1 and # 2


Catholic Social Teaching and the Problem of Child Labor


Child labor is a hot topic, which barely any people pay attention too. Poverty is the base of child labor. Child labor is spread all over the world. Many people have taken action by making laws to get rid of child labor. The problem is that the laws that are made to end child labor is not having any positive results. Some families need child labor to survive. This issue is hard to stop because countries need this type of labor to keep their economy going. There are many views on this topic. The question that we should be asking ourselves is, “ Should we get rid of child labor?”


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