All over the world, children under the age of 18 continue to work long hours for low payment. Millions of them work under hazardous conditions damaging their health, physical and mental development.
According to the statistics given by the International labor organization, there are about 250 millions of children between the age of 5 and 14 years who are in economic activity in the developing countries for 120 million of them work in full-time activity. The remainder combines work with schooling or other non-economic activities.
In other terms, Africa comes first in the amount of working children with an average of 41 per cent of the total number of children aged between 5 and 14, compared to 22 per cent in Asia and 17 per cent in Latin America.
While girls work as domestic servants in other people’s houses caring for sick members of the family or doing all the housework alone, boys work outside as vendors (selling vegetables, fruits and candy), shoe shines and delivering newspapers. Those little children are always exposed to danger: health problems (serious injuries and illnesses) drug addiction, mistreatments, and all kinds of abuse.
The most important factors contributing to child labor problem is poverty. The low income of the parents forces the children to work and supplement the family income. Poor school education is as well one of the main reasons for many children to drop out of schools and go to the work place. Moreover, illiteracy among parents and ignorance of the value of education also facilitates the growth of child labor. In addition to that, the government and the concerned authorities do not pay much attention to this rising menace, many children were deprived from their basic rights like the right of education and the right to protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination…
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