 Child labour for children 12-14 years of
age is considered being 14 hours of
Important Facts About child Labour
 The United Nations, Convention on the
Rights of the Child, along with United
Nations International Children’s
Emergency Fund entail that every child
is entitled to protection of their rights to
help meet their basic needs and to
expand their opportunities to reach their
full potential.
 The current move to abolish child labour
needs to be revamped- why children
engage in labour needs to be addressed.
o Necessity of Child Labour-
families need to keep as many
family members working as
possible to ensure income
security and survival.
 241 million children
engage in child labour-
out of that number 178
million engage in
hazardous forms of child
labour
• Includes:
prostitution,
forced
recruitment, use
in armed conflict
economic labour- in Canada, The
Employment Act does not allow an
individual to work until the age of 16
and 8 hours is the max, including breaks.
 Child labourers earn a wage of less than
$1- $2Ebony Wright
per day (way below the world
 Education Definition
 121 million children don’t have
education
 72 million in primary school age did not
attend school in 2007
o 57% were girls
 Reasons:
o They come from Low income
families
o Poverty
o Children need to work for
survival By Adriana Munoz, Carolina
Laviola, Ebony Wright,
 How to break the cycle of poverty with
education? Kandi Xiu Feng Xiao
o Educated mothers tend to push
their children for higher
education
o Governments need to spend in
Carolina Laviola
 The Problem in Numbers
We define children in the developing  1,633 million children in developing
 Poverty definition: Financial Poverty 
world as children concentrated in the countries.
Deprivation.
areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South  4% of them are uprooted
 1 billion live in poverty.
East Asia mostly. o 90% from developing countries
They are not equally poor. The social  The reasons why they become uprooted o 640 Million have no shelter
children?
classes contrast sharply. High class 1. Flee from war and persecutions
o 400 million have no drinkable
children usually come from military water
2. Natural disasters
o 270 million have no health care
and/or politically involved families 3. Country’s development project
which make up a minority. The rest of  9.7 million under 5 children have died so
far in 2008
the children live close to the poverty  How many organizations are helping?
What are the helps they provide? Is it  Sub-Saharan Africa holds the largest
line. numbers
enough?
They either work to survive, live on the
street, have been abandoned due to  Silent Killers:
 What are the options of
sickness, war, poverty. Then there are refugee children? How  4 million babies die
those who are members or victims of about displaced children? before 1 month
civil conflicts. 1. Immigrate to other  Reasons: not
immunized. Causes
Due to these circumstances, most of countries
them have little or no access to
education and health care.
2.
3.
Adoption
Return
1.66 Billion malaria, pneumonia,
measles, diarrhea
4.
5.
6.
Willing to displaced
Child labours
Child soldiers
children in the  The cycle of
malnutrition

 What kind of risks both

Developing  HIV/Aids – How it is
spread among children.

1.
groups of children are
facing?
Abuse
World  G8 summit – slow solutions, lack of funds
 Problems in the 15 million Aids Orphans
 Hospitals
2. Kidnap  SAP’s affecting the Public Health System
3. Selling business  No media coverage
4. Violence The Possible Solutions
5. Drugs…  NGO’s + Civil Society
 UN Countdown to 2015
 What are the solutions for the problems?  The need to break “business-as-usual”
1. $
2. Education
3. Peace
Child in Sudan Kandi Xiu Feng Xiao Adriana Munoz