World No Child Labor Day: There are at least 200 million children aged 5-14 in the world

June 12 is the World No Child Labor Day set by the International Labor Organization. According to UNICEF, there are at least 200 million children aged 5 to 14 in the world. In some areas where child labor is high, the government has put in place new policies or targets to show its resolve to tackle child labor. However, the causes of child labor are complex and can not be eradicated overnight.

India: Eliminating poverty is paramount

Sixty-one percent of the world's children are concentrated in Asia, including South Asia. In India, a huge number of child laborers work in a variety of industries, some as servants in the rich and others in sweatshops. Child labor workers are mostly engaged in work with low pay and labor intensity, and living conditions are very difficult.

The reason for the child labor in India is complicated because, first and foremost, the caste system in India. Many low-caste families are in poverty, forcing their children to work at an early age, but because they are uneducated, these children can only engage in tiring and dirty work. Second is the growing polarization between the rich and the poor, leading children in vast rural areas to go out to work one after another.

As early as 1986, the Indian government passed a bill banning employment in many industries of minors under 14 but because of poor enforcement, the bill is negligent. For the Indian government, in addition to ensuring law enforcement, the most important task is to eradicate poverty. Without pressure from family and life, fewer and fewer children are forced to go out to work.

Mexico: Domestic workers should be on guard

A press conference was held on June 10 with representatives of UN Women, the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in Mexico, claiming that Mexico has more than 3.035 million child laborers, of whom more than 880,000 have more than 358,000 working hours per week Hours.

Thomas Wissin, director of the ILO's Mexico office, said that 90% of these minors who work more than 35 hours a week are girls and nearly 1.93 million minors do not go to school because of work. He warned that prolonged working hours, physical violence and even sexual abuse increase the risk of child laborers living and working in employers' homes.

The focus of this year's "World No Child Labor Day" is on the issue of child labor in domestic work. According to the International Labor Organization, many countries do not consider child labor in domestic work a form of child labor because of unclear relations with employers. In practice, however, this form of hiring harms the rights and interests of children and masks the "essence of exploitation" characterized by long working hours, lack of personal freedom and even working in hazardous conditions.

Indonesia: Government Launches Aid Policy

The same is true of child labor in Indonesia. About 78 million minors in the country have about 3.2 million minors aged 10-17 who are going out to work. Many of them are caught in illegal activities such as pornography, gambling and drug trafficking. The causes of child labor are everywhere, as is the prevalence of poverty.

Statistics from the Indonesian government in 2012 show that 28.59 million people in Indonesia live below the poverty line and their family income is less than one U.S. dollar a day. When parents' income can not sustain their livelihood, children are forced into the labor market.

To this end, Indonesian Ministry of Human Resources and Immigration Muhai Ming Iskandar announced recently that the government will adopt a series of aid measures to help minors from poor families to return to school. According to the plan, children who leave the labor market will be housed in temporary shelters and receive psychological and technical counseling for a period of four months. During this period, they will receive a living allowance of Rp250,000 per month. Upon returning to school, these children will Access to grants, books, stationery and other assistance.

However, migrant workers from many poor children in Indonesia tend to be the main source of income for the whole family, so it is very difficult for them to give up this subsistence opportunity. For example, Auman Setiawan, a volunteer from Jakarta, cites a large number of child laborers gathering in junkyards in Jakarta. These children get 20,000 to 50,000 dong by picking up rubbish every day, so they often truant money after returning to school.

June 12 each year is the world's child labor day, childhood should be children playful, spoiled naughty age. However, a group of children can not enjoy the happiness of their childhood, they have a common name - child labor. The children of the poor have long been home, in order to survive, these children bid farewell to the warm embrace of their parents, with a young body, weak shoulders to carry the burden of life, their helpless tired eyes sad.

Today, there are 168 million children aged 5 to 17 in our world who shed their sweat and tears in the fields, on the streets, in brick kilns, in coal mines, in textile shops, and in construction sites ... This photograph of the photo taken on May 28, 2009 , A boy rescued in the rescue operation in New Delhi, the capital of India, wept in the police station.

Child labor world heavy topic

Child labor has not been considered as a social problem for a long time; child labor is not a social problem today; Britain makes heavy use of child labor before the Industrial Revolution; child labor is not unique to poor countries; today's United States still has Child labor issues. In December 1994, Boston was a child boy at the age of 4, and later became the boy of ITI leader,

The origin of "World No Child Labor Day"

In order to pay attention to the growing problem of child labor, the 90th International Labor Conference held in Geneva in June 2002 decided that June 12th of each year will be designated as "World No Child Labor Day" and urged all countries in the world to pay close attention to child labor and take effective measures Effective measures to solve this problem.