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Write a paper on Child labor/trafficking.
Running head: CHILD LABOR AND TRAFFICKING
Child labor and trafficking
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CHILD LABOR AND TRAFFICKING
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Child labor and trafficking
One of the human tribulations that have stood the test of time and law is child labor and
child trafficking. For many years, many unscrupulous, greedy business people and regimes have
taken advantage of the vulnerable children to provide for cheap work in industries, farms, mines,
and sales. UNICEF and ILO acknowledge that there are an estimated 168 million children below
the age of 17 engaged in child labor (Howard, 2017). This paper is meant to examine the
statistics, history, causes, effects, firms, and countries involved and how the problem of child
labor and trafficking can get stopped.
The reasons behind child labor and the trafficking of children around the world are
poverty among families, limited access to free education, and lack of supporting laws and
policies, especially in the developing countries. Another reason is the existence of greedy
business people who are not willing to give the required minimum wages to adults; hence they
prefer young children (Howard, 2017). There is also the fact that children are easy to control, and
with little fear, they will work hard without questioning.
Over 15% of children in sub-Saharan Africa are child laborers in agricultural activities
such as cocoa production in Ivory Coast, where over 19,000 children are laborers. These children
are mostly victims of poverty, slavery, and child trafficking (Meshelemiah and Sarkar, 2015). An
ILO report in 2018 named some of the goods produced by child labors, and they included
alcoholic beverages in Cambodia, artificial flowers in china, baked good in Dominican republic,
bamboo in Burma, bananas in brazil, brick in Afghanistan, diamonds in DRC and cotton in
Burkina Faso amongst others.
Child labor has the effect of bringing sufferings to children through injuries and doing
jobs that their bodies cannot sustain and exposure to adverse working conditions such as mines.
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The wages are also low, and hence poverty continues to persist. Many organizations such as ILO,
UNICEF, Anti-Slavery International, and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) have
come on board to fight the scourge, and there is hope that it will end, though not soon.
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References
Howard, N. (2017). Child trafficking, youth labour mobility and the politics of protection.
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Meshelemiah, J. C., & Sarkar, S. (2015). A comparative study of child trafficking in India and
the United States. Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime and Security, 1(2), pp-126.
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