COMENIUS PROJECT Poverty and minor labour in the world

In the world there are 250 millions of exploited teenagers. They work like slaves in rich families, or they are exploited in the sex industry, like soldiers in the front line, in front of furnaces, in the textile industry, like workers in the fields, along the streets to ask for alms, in the outskirts of big cities, or involved in illegal traffics either involved in picking up rubbish. They also work in mines, to look for precious stones. These teenagers grow up and they become adults with no education, they do not know other possibilities except that of sending their own children to work, to survive. All this is a close circle composed of: Poorness, Exploitation.

Africa is the region where there are a lot of exploited children.

In Asia a lot of children, especially girls, are involved in the production system.

In Florida, Texas, Tennessee, children from 12 to 14 are exploited in picking up tomatoes.

In some parts of the U.S.A. children under 18 can’t buy cigarettes but they can work till 10 hours for day

In Perù 3 millions of children from work in the fields, in different markets, they sell candies and look after their own brothers and sisters and they usually do the housework.

In Guatemala child labour is based on coffee plantations and industry. In Ecuador children work in bananas plantations

In central and south America children are exploited in caves and mines.

In Australia … In Australia a lot of children work at home looking after their brothers and sisters, they work in the fields or in small factories.

Article 32. States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989

NEVER MORE

THE ADULTS AT WORK…

CHILDREN AT SCHOOL !!

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