Wednesday 12 June 2013

Today is World Day Against Child Labour

While toady's date- June 12 may mean different things to different people, Every year on June 12 the World Day Against Child Labor is observed to raise awareness of the plight of child laborers world- wide. Hundreds of millions of girls and boys around the world are affected.  Child labor is a problem in both
developing and industrialized countries.

The World Day Against Child Labor is a global observance and not a public holiday.

Child labor is especially rampant in many developing countries - but even in industrialized nations many children are forced to work. According to UNICEF, children in the United States “are employed in agriculture, a high proportion of them from immigrant or ethnic-minority families.” There have also been a number of incidents of westerns companies exploiting child laborers in developing countries to save production costs.

In 2011, there were an estimated 215 million child laborers in the world - 115 million of which were involved in hazardous work. To combat child labor around the world the International Labour Organization (ILO) initiated theWorld Day Against Child Labor in 2002.

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