Saturday, June 12, 2010

Child Labor

More than 200 million children must work to survive.

This is a matter that concerns us all. The Director General of the International Labor Organisation (ILO), Juan Somavia took yesterday the World Day Against Child Labor to defend the need for "a revitalized campaign" against this reality that affects about 215 million children around the world.
I shall quote some of his words:

"While thousands of people enjoy the excitement of World Cup, some 215 million children work to survive. Education and games are a luxury for them. Progress on the end of child labor are weakening, and we are not on track to end the worst forms of child labor by 2016, "

I think this is a reality that is unknown for most of us, in fact we don't even know what 200 million people "looks like"... and kids shouldn't be force to work, they shouldn't work at all. They need guidance i they should play with cars/dolls and study not doing hard work.

Think about it!

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