Child Labor Awareness: Almost 1 of every 10 children worldwide are involved in child labor
Generally, unsafe child labor practices are defined in part by the number of working hours for a specific child's age. Hazardous child labor includes:
- Any of the worst forms of child labor: including excessively long hours, night work, work with heavy machinery, or work that takes place underground or underwater
- Any labor performed by a child under the age of 12
- More than 14 hours of work, per week, by a child aged 12-14
- More than 43 hours of work, per week, by a child aged 15-17
Worst Forms of Child Labor
- all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict;
- the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for the production of pornography or pornographic performances;
- the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs as defined in the relevant international treaties;
- work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm children's health, safety, or morals.
MEXICO
Family Work or Human Trafficking?
Child Labor Law Sparks Controversy
Child Labor Law Sparks Controversy
Mexico’s human trafficking law clearly delineates the crime.
Activists say the reality is more complex – and poor families often pay the price.
Read the Article Here
Historical Roots of Human Trafficking
- Capitalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism: Roots for Present-Day Trafficking
- Invisibility, Forced Labor, and Domestic Work
- addressing Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Businesses
- Immigration, Precarity, and Human Trafficking: Histories and Legacies of Asian American Racial Exclusion in the United States
- Systemic and Structural Roots of Child Sex Trafficking: The Role of Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation in Disproportionate Victimization
- The Complexities of Complex Matters: Health Research, Health Care, and Bodies of Color in the United States
Action: What Can Be Done?
Child labor will end on,y when there are expanded income support measures for families in situations of vulnerability due to poverty.
Ensuring universal free and good-quality education will provide a viable alternative to child labor and afford children a chance at a better future.
Every child's birth must be registered to have a legal identity and enjoy their rights from birth.
There must be decent work that ensures a fair income for young people of legal working age and adults, emphasizing workers in the informal economy, for families to escape poverty-driven child labor.
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in the
September Stop Trafficking Newsletter here:
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