2010年11月8日星期一

Hard Wok Child

CHILD  LABOUR Child Labour is the employment of children at regular and sustained labour.This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and organizations. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the beginning of world school,with changes in working conditions during industrialization, and with the emergence of the concepts of  Child labour is still common in some places where the school leaving age is lower. Child Labor is very common, and can be factory work, mining, prostitution quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business,  or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as: assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories , most child labor occurs in the informal sector, "selling many things on the streets, at work in agriculture — far from the reach of official labor inspectors and from media scrutiny." And all the work that they did was done in all types of weather; and was also done for minimal pay. Poor families often rely on the labors of their children for survival, and sometimes it is their only source of income. This type of work is often hidden away because it is not always in the industrial sector. Child labor is employed in subsistence agriculture and in the urban informal sector; child domestic work is also important. In order to benefit children, child labor prohibition has to address the dual challenge of providing them with both short-term income and long-term prospects. Some youth rights groups, however, feel that prohibiting work below a certain age violates human rights, reducing children's options and leaving them subject to the whims of those with money. Education is very much essential for children. Education enhances the development of self-esteem. Education offers children a possibility to learn to think for themselves, to make choices and to form their own opinion. Educated children learn to defend themselves and to claim their rights. In other words, education is key to a better life.  Furthermore education is a pre-condition to sustainable development and the building of a democratic society. Good education leads also to the better health conditions. Particularly, the education of girls gives a high return in terms of health improvements, family planning and the well-being of whole families. Besides, educated women make extra efforts to ensure an education for their children.

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