This is my reserch paper about CHILD LABOR:>/FONT>
What is child labor ?
Child labor is not a problem if the child is working under non-detrimental conditions. But, this is not usually the case and then child labor becomes a problem.
Child labor began to occurring long ago, and it effected a lot of children around the world. Those children didn't have many chances of surviving. For example when you read this part of the article that was published in the Chicago Tribune from the date of 10/12/1991:
" Police recently raided a Bangkok sweatshop that produced paper cups
and rescued 31 children who had been locked up in a small room.
Not one was older then 13... They were emaciated and suffering from
malnutrition. They had been beaten so badly that they needed to be
carried to freedom... They told of being thrashed if they failed to make
700 cups a day, by hand... The owner... gave them amphetamine tablets
[ to keep them awake and working longer hours]... One 13 year old told
police he had been beaten unconscious twice when he tried to escape."
You are astounded at what is being done to children.
This story is just one of many stories about children who had been imprisoned and excruciated.
In which ways UNICEF tried to get rid of child labor ?
The United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) has declared that the child shall have the right to be protected from work that threatens his health, education and development.
Each country shall set minimum working ages and conditions that children must work under.
The only disadvantage in the UNICEF declaration is that often times the governments of countries who have problems with child labor are not able to give adequate funding to watch over the places where children work.
Where ?
All over the world there are between 100 and 200 million child labor cases reported, one can probably double this number.
Over 95% of these children's are found in the developing countries.
Asia has over 50% of the child laborers, while Africa having the highest percentage of its children's working - every 1 in 3 children.
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