They work in agriculture, in mines, factories or in service: According to estimates by the International Labor Organization (ILO), almost 170 million children worldwide are affected by child labor.
Annual reminder
Each year on June 12, the United Nations commemorates the fate of an estimated 168 million child workers around the world. In 1999, the member countries of the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted a convention against the worst forms of child labor. The agreement applies to children under the age of 18 and prohibits slavery and prostitution, among other things.
Towels made in India
Child workers in Tamil Nadu in southern India: towels are made in this factory, for example. This child is only one of millions: According to ILO estimates, there are almost 78 million child workers in Asia. In other words, almost ten percent of the young population between the ages of five and 17 are regularly forced to work.
Work instead of school
You can neither read nor write, you have to make bricks instead. Due to poverty, many Indian children have to contribute to the livelihood of their families from an early age. The children work ten hours a day – for a starvation wage equivalent to around 80 US cents.
Cheap workers
According to the latest Indian census data, there are 12.6 million child workers in the world’s largest democracy. They sell goods on the street, sew, cook and clean in restaurants, pick cotton in the fields or hit Bricks. All for little money: the wages of a child laborer is just over a third of what an adult gets for the same job.
Inhumane conditions
According to an ILO report from 2013, around half of all child laborers do work classified as dangerous: they are used in quarries or on commercial plantations, work night shifts, often work far too long and are sometimes kept like slaves. In addition, employment contracts and social benefits are missing.
Made in Bangladesh
Child labor is also widespread in Bangladesh. According to the children’s aid organization UNICEF, around five million children have to contribute to family support there and work under sometimes slave-like conditions – for example in the textile industry, the largest export sector in the South Asian country. The result of their work is then borne by consumers in the industrialized countries.
On your own in the megacity
In Southeast Asian Cambodia, only 60 percent of all children attend school in fifth grade. Many others are used by their parents beforehand. Thousands of children struggle on the streets alone – for example in the capital Phnom Penh – live and survive day by day.
The list is long
Although the number of child laborers worldwide has declined since 2000 – by 40% for girls and 25% for boys – child labor is still part of everyday life in a number of Asian countries: in addition to India or Bangladesh, for example, (like here in the picture) in Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia or Myanmar.
Annual reminder
Each year on June 12, the United Nations commemorates the fate of an estimated 168 million child workers around the world. In 1999, the member countries of the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted a convention against the worst forms of child labor. The agreement applies to children under the age of 18 and prohibits slavery and prostitution, among other things.
Towels made in India
Child workers in Tamil Nadu in southern India: towels are made in this factory, for example. This child is only one of millions: According to ILO estimates, there are almost 78 million child workers in Asia. In other words, almost ten percent of the young population between the ages of five and 17 are regularly forced to work.
Work instead of school
You can neither read nor write, you have to make bricks instead. Due to poverty, many Indian children have to contribute to the livelihood of their families from an early age. The children work ten hours a day – for one Hunger wages of around 80 US cents.
Cheap workers
According to the latest Indian census data, there are 12.6 million child workers in the world’s largest democracy. They sell goods on the street, sew, cook and clean in restaurants, pick cotton in the fields or cut bricks. All for little money: the wages of a child laborer is just over a third of what an adult gets for the same job.
Inhumane conditions
According to an ILO report from 2013, around half of all child laborers do work classified as dangerous: they are used in quarries or on commercial plantations, work night shifts, often work far too long and are sometimes kept like slaves. In addition, there are no employment contracts or social benefits.
Made in Bangladesh
Child labor is also widespread in Bangladesh. According to the children’s aid organization UNICEF, around five million children have to contribute to family support there and work under sometimes slave-like conditions – for example in the textile industry, the largest export sector in the South Asian country. The result of their work is then borne by consumers in the industrialized countries.
On your own in the megacity
In Southeast Asian Cambodia, only 60 percent of all children attend school in fifth grade. Many others are used by their parents beforehand. Thousands of children are struggling on the street alone – for example in the capital Phnom Penh – living and surviving day by day.
The list is long
Although the number of child laborers worldwide has declined since 2000 – by 40% for girls and 25% for boys – child labor is still part of everyday life in a number of Asian countries: in addition to India or Bangladesh, for example, (like here in the picture) in Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia or Myanmar.
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