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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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Suffering of child labor - prayer


We pray for the kids, who work all over the world, who receive no respect
for their efforts, who work hard to support their families, who work because
they are in poverty.

We pray for the employers of these kids, that they will come to realize what

horrible things they are doing to them, these kids who are forced to work for

small wages.


We also pray for families of these kids who are put into child labor, that their lives will get better and they will find a way to get income without putting their children in dangerous labor.

We pray for all the people who make the effort to correct this issue of child labor.


We pray to you God to help these people in need.

Amen.

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