Child labour in Asia
International Labour Organization estimates there 250 million children who are working between ages of 5-14. 61%, or roughly 153 million, of the working children are found in Asia. Many multi national corporations have been known to use child labour to produce products for sale in the United States and other countries around the world.
In Asia, many of these child labourers, some as young as seven years old, are hidden. They work as household help, workers in farming and fishing industries, providers of sex services, workers in quarries, mines, brick kilns, construction sites, and increasingly in drug trade. A lot more in many Asian societies live in full public view as scavengers, street beggars, vendors, and workers in small scale or home-based industries. Since these types of work are considered "informal," regulation of the industries does not exist and monitoring the presence of children in the workplace is not commonly done.
Western labour unions are calling for trade restrictions against Asian countries that allow child labour. Others are concerned about the welfare of the children.
What can be done in order to tackle this issue in the best suiting way?
Resources:
http://www.ncpa.org/pd/pdint27.html
http://www.hurights.or.jp/asia-pacific/no_25/02childlabor.htm
http://facweb.eths.k12.il.us/frohmanp/chidlabor.htm
