Exploiting Children To Work

Exploiting Children to Work refers to the job of preventing children education threatens their physical or mental health and prevent them from playing or doing all a normal kid do; they have to work twelve hours or more per day; they have a very low payment and work affects their self-esteem. Because of poverty, children are force to work and that is how they become exploited children. The girls suffer double exploitation because they put them as if they were "woman", and are more vulnerable to all forms of exploitation, especially sexual abuse and prostitution. In developing countries, with high poverty and poor schooling opportunities the exploiting of children is still very prevalent. On the other hand a child is more profitable than an adult because of their helplessness, submission and the fact that performs the same work as an adult, without any complaint and remuneration much lower.

Child Exploitation is still a problem in 71 countries worldwide, including some countries of Latin American, Africa, Asia and Europe. According to the Statistical Office of the ILO (International Labour Organization), the number of working children is at least 120 million and they have 5 to 14 years of age. A large number of children work in hazardous occupations mostly in mines, bangles factories, beads of glass, matches and fireworks, in deep sea fishing, etc. The list is endless, as is the list of risks and hazards and their consequences.

In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, girls are sold to supply the prostitution or domestic work. Many children are sold to textile mills as workers without pay to cover the debts of their families. In Africa, the parents sell their children, often in exchange for cattle. These children are exploited in plantations in mines, or become domestic workers. In North America and Latin America, children are victims of prostitution to satisfy the perverse appetite of tourists and are increasingly exploited by drug traffickers. In Europe, children are kidnapped, providing cheap labor or supplying prostitution networks proliferate in Eastern Europe.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, obliges governments to protect children from "economic exploitation and performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the physical, mental or spiritual child or for their social health" was adopted by the UN General Assembly and ratified by more than 20 states on November 20, 1989. The Convention follows the pattern of international treaty both its internal structure and content. There are only 6 countries for universal ratification, these are: USA, Switzerland Somalia, Oman, UAE and the Cook Islands. This makes the Convention on the Rights of the Child Human rights treaty ratified by a greater number of States Parties. In November 20 of 1959, The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Declaration

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