Child Labor And Trafficking

Child labor is a serious problem that affects children from third-world countries all over the world. These children are exploited by multinational corporations ,for their cheap labor all over the world. People, then buy products that come at a cheaper price, from these multinational corporations.These children are often overworked and treated unfairly. People need to stop buying items from countries that endorse child labor.

Have you ever walked into Wal-Mart and taken the time to look at the numerous pictures of missing youth that is plastered on the wall? When looking at how long they have been missing, it ranges anywhere from months to years. Looking at their age, both boys and girls, it’s hard not to wonder if they have been kidnapped and are being trafficked. Child sex trafficking also known as human trafficking is a major issue that is not only plaguing the United States, but also the world. Residing in a state where teen sex trafficking is very common, it is imperative that not only adults, but youth as well understand what child sex/human trafficking is, what is a sex-trafficker, and data that displays how serious child sex trafficking is.

As of 2013, 168 million children worldwide are engaged in child labor. The Sub-Saharan Africa region has the second highest number of child laborers in the world; about 59 million as of 2012 (borenproject.org). Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend school, and is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful (ilo.org). Children work in dangerous conditions, harming their mental and physical state. More than half of these children are exposed to the worst forms of child labor. More should be done to end child labor. These children experience unfair treatment, hazardous living conditions, and

Secondly, many children do not receive a good education. Many children working in farms and mines do not attend school. According to the report, Child labor & Educational Disadvantage in sub- Saharan Africa one in every three children working is out of school. In total, 10 million children working are out of school (p.36). Most of them have worked since their early years and do not even consider having the option of going to school. Not investing in education, many countries in Africa are destined to live in poverty. Children are the next generation of professionals. As it is quoted by Greg Campbell that Alfred George, a worker for 12 years with the Environmental Foundation for Africa, says that children are the future of Sierra Leon. Everyone

Human trafficking or sex slavery is a real occurrence.  Force 4 Compassion, a website designated to informing the public about human trafficking reports,  “3,287 people are sold or kidnaped and forced into slavery every day.  That’s 136 an hour and that’s just the reported cases” (“Human Trafficking Facts”). Atwood shines light on the situation by stating one of the main reasons human trafficking occurs is “because there was only so much food to go around" (Atwood 117).  In a world with so much why do young children and families with so little have to suffer?  Why must these girls come to peace with the images they have seen?  Why must families justify the sales of their daughters by stating “In the village it was not called ‘selling,’ this transaction.  The talk about it implied apprenticeship.  The children were being trained to earn their living in a wide world” (Atwood 116).  An honest living that involves a girl not yet a teenage to undress in front of a man multiple times her age in exchange for money (Atwood 131).  It does not have to be that way.  Atwood makes that clear.  If the root of the problem is there is not enough food for the children to survive there is a simple solution. If society was more aware of what was happening the increase in awareness and charitable contributions could lead to a hopeful tomorrow. While this answer seems easy enough to apply the

To make matters worse, it is the trafficking system that has the lives of kids of male and females, but mostly young kids and grown females whose life may’ve been turned upside down. Human Trafficking is an illegal way of trade of human beings for slavery, sex, and forced labor. As this happens all around the world even the U.S. It is mostly known as slavery. Human trafficking is taking a person by force, abduction, scam/frauds. Like becoming a model which might be a scam and is one way leading into abduction. The abuse of power is an position of achieving and choosing the person of having control over them. For an example. Exploitation can be prostitution or have other types like sexual exploitation, being forced into labor,

“Since 2001 child soldiers have been recruited in 21 armed conflicts all around the world.” (Borgen Project) “More than 200 million children today are child labourers. An estimated 120 million are engaged in hazardous work.”(The World Counts) These numbers are just a small dent in research of the use of cheap labor, children. Child laborers and soldiers have their potential, childhood, and dignity taken away from them. Child labor started in the industrial revolution, when factory owners didn’t need strength but hands. It became a favored method of obtaining factory and “sweatshop” workers. On the other hand, child soldiers are used because they are easy to manipulate, and force into performing violent actions. Some might say child laborers

Being a child should be about going to school, making mistakes, and learning valuable life skills in order to prepare to enter the workforce as an adult. It should not be a child’s job to work for many hours of the day in unsafe working conditions. They should not be worked to the point of exhaustion for such inconsiderable wages, for that is child labor. In many African countries, child labor is very prevalent, particularly in the gold industry. In order to get enough income to support themselves, many poor, African families send their children to work even though it means risking the health of their child. A common job for these desperate children is working in small scale mines in search of gold to make jewelry. Not only is this job dangerous,

Many children are trafficked away from home thinking that they can earn money for their family. “The parents in the countries of origin do not even know what happens to their children in the countries of destination”(“High cost of child trafficking” 1). The main reason that children are trafficked is because the traffickers are just looking for a way to make money by using the children to work for them in dangerous conditions. Many kids in Africa are tricked into thinking that they could somehow earn money for their families, but soon realize that they made a huge

A UNICEF study reports that 200,000 children are trafficked yearly in West and Central Africa. The trafficking occurs across many countries including Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ghana. Slave traders traffic boys ranging from the age of 12 to 16 from their home countries and sell them to cocoa farmers in Cote d 'Ivoire. They work on small farms across the country, harvesting the cocoa beans day and

Despite their role in contributing to child labor, slavery, and human trafficking, the chocolate industry has not taken significant steps to remedy the problem. Within their $60-billion industry, chocolate companies have the power to end the use of child labor and slave labor by paying cocoa farmers a living wage for their product. The chocolate industry is also being called upon to develop and financially support programs to rescue and rehabilitate children who have been sold to cocoa farms. To date, the industry has done little to remove child labor, let alone aid survivors of child labor. Hershey’s, the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America, has not thoroughly addressed accusations of child labor in its supply chain and

Chapter one: What are child laborers? How do children become laborers? Where do child laborers come from?

Child slavery is a growing problem and needs to be stopped. The difference between child labor and child slavery is labor is where they work because they want to not because they are forced to work and get no pay. Child labor occurs in many countries. The children are used for mining, agricultural work, and soldier are some examples of what the kids are used for(“Child slavery: what is it?”). They are used because they are easy to bribe and control because they are not good at decision making at their age. They won’t complain as much and will not ask for a raise or sometimes they won’t even be paid.

Despite slavery being deemed illegal across the majority of the world, millions of people are subjected to slave-like conditions on a daily basis, many of whom are children with little options for change. One aspect of slavery that commands particular attention is the exploitation of children in various factories and farms which continues to flourish in Africa, various south east Asian countries, Cambodia and India. Despite the rapid decrease in child slaves between 2000 and 2015 as a result of non-government organisation action, United nations conventions and some legal measures there are still millions of children being subjected to such treatment. This report will consider the size of the problem and the interplay between between child sex tourism, youth employment in the pursuit towards ending child prostitution, most commonly found as a form of debt bondage.

Ghana is suffering from human trafficking since the country is a source, transit, and destination for numerous Ghanaians and refugees from its neighboring developing nations. Children are often forced to work in fishing, domestic service, street hawking, begging, portering, mining, quarrying, herding, and agriculture and even are forced into prostitution. Sometimes, men and women are trafficked out of Ghana enticed with legitimate job offers in more prosperous countries around the world only to be forced into labor or prostitution. Women and girls from Vietnam, China, and neighboring West African countries are also sex-trafficked in Ghana, in which the country is also a transit point for sex-trafficking from West Africa.