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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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Response to CST's

1. The most important CST teaching is CST#7 Care For God's Creations. This CST is important because we should take care of ourselves and our planet. God placed us on Earth to take care of it including the animals, seas, plants and ourselves. We should not love the creations God has created for us and should always cherish them and not destroy them.

2.What suprised me in this teaching is that the poor and the powerless that must bare the burden of the Earth's dramatic changes. Everyone must work together in order to keep the Earth clean and make safe areas in the enviornment. I did not expect to see the teachings from Catholic church because many church leaders focus on the death penalty and the treatment of others and not focused on the enviornments at hand.

3. The church teaches that humanity is called to act upon caring and preserving the Earth for future generations. Many Christians act to keep the Earth from being crippled and weak and follow Christ's teachings of love and care. The church usually acts by setting up special events and letting the public aware of the situations the world is facing and they want them to act upom them.
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