Child Labour
Critical essay
The role of government in child labour
Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve, it is globally. Children trading something on the streets, separated from families, kept out of schools, suffering from injuries, even dying because of hard work. It is something that should be changed. Therefore I agree that government should role this field. I choose to write about this theme, because government and society must do a lot more to help children. It would be great if government could reduce child labour to a minimum. Child labour was employed to varying extents through most of history, especially during the Industrial Revolution, working in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions. World is progressing and changing, but child labour is still common in some parts of the world like Asia, Africa. That shows that question of child labour should be undertaken tight by the government. Nowadays there are organizations made to help children around the world, working for their rights, survival, development, education and protection. One of those is UNICEF (United Nations International Children`s Emergency Fund), which statistic data shows that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of child labour in the world with more than one-third of children aged 5–14 being engaged in the hardest forms of labour.[1] Economists Basu and Van in year 1998 argue that the primary cause of child labour is parental poverty. So there is solution - governments, with support from partners, need to invest adequate resources in the disadvantaged rural or provincial communities, to reduce disparities between regions and income groups. Many African countries have introduced social protection mechanisms, helping with money to families, to support them and prevent children from leaving their homes to secure some income on the street or in other exploitative labour conditions. Remembering recent story from BBC, there was
The role of government in child labour
Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve, it is globally. Children trading something on the streets, separated from families, kept out of schools, suffering from injuries, even dying because of hard work. It is something that should be changed. Therefore I agree that government should role this field. I choose to write about this theme, because government and society must do a lot more to help children. It would be great if government could reduce child labour to a minimum. Child labour was employed to varying extents through most of history, especially during the Industrial Revolution, working in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions. World is progressing and changing, but child labour is still common in some parts of the world like Asia, Africa. That shows that question of child labour should be undertaken tight by the government. Nowadays there are organizations made to help children around the world, working for their rights, survival, development, education and protection. One of those is UNICEF (United Nations International Children`s Emergency Fund), which statistic data shows that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of child labour in the world with more than one-third of children aged 5–14 being engaged in the hardest forms of labour.[1] Economists Basu and Van in year 1998 argue that the primary cause of child labour is parental poverty. So there is solution - governments, with support from partners, need to invest adequate resources in the disadvantaged rural or provincial communities, to reduce disparities between regions and income groups. Many African countries have introduced social protection mechanisms, helping with money to families, to support them and prevent children from leaving their homes to secure some income on the street or in other exploitative labour conditions. Remembering recent story from BBC, there was