When the work is stealing the innocence
Friday, November 26, 2010
Brazilian Wax Can Use Tape
Soledad Lofredo
According to ILO, the world has more than 215 million child laborers, mostly in rural tasks
Ezekiel was seven. Last Tuesday, at dawn, died in consequence of a brain tumor, caused by handling poultry company poisons in our footprint SA
The child had to "help" their parents meet with a top production impossible. So the family joined slavery as many convicted families, tricked and seduced by a company that promised a better future and that only hid the piece productions.
is that child labor is so naturalized in many cartoons featuring children working the land, breaking stones and carrying bags full. Children who combine their work going to school a single shift, and go home fall into the same routine. It is also seen in Argentine novels where the wicked caricatures as ashen parents who keep their children.
A more tangible, in a vegetable stand, next to the Railway Station Coronado Martin General Urquiza works an eight year old girl and a boy of ten. By Mornings do not see them, their parents arranged fruits and vegetables, sold recently. From five in the afternoon, the complications begin. Dozens of people off the train began to shop "in step". The post is full of people calling and calling. The kids can not cope. Parents have a bad temper. If you ask a price, they answered wrong. "Stop it, you," they shout. Customers look bad to parents, but do nothing. The height of the complaint is to go and say "thanks. Nothing more. "
That's one of the many routines of Buenos Aires. But it also happens in Chacarita flower stalls, at kiosks in markets. Guys who sell stamps, bandages or flowers in transportation and in the street.
also occurs on the Internet, where they circulate dozens of videos filmed by the NGO La Alameda, who denounced by a film, identical to that of Ezekiel cases two years ago in Mendoza farms, where children from 4 to 14 are required to collect and peel garlic. For more than 12 hours are used to perform the activity have tiny hands, which simplifies operation of the plant. The largest are responsible for carrying boxes full.
"The fact naturalize child labor and consider it as if it were a feature of poverty, becomes the first obstacle to fight it, "says Elena Duron, founder and coordinator Petisos NGOs and international organizations.
According to him, there are 250 million children and young workers in the world. "It is true that poverty is one of the main causes and consequences of child labor and acts as a factor that for the children and their families a vicious cycle of exclusion and marginalization." She and her team work with parents and children the process of collecting waste in open dumps.
international treaties. In the Netherlands, in May, 2016 was set at a limit to eradicate the worst forms of child labor: slavery, servitude, management of pesticides, etc. And he began developing the project called Roadmap.
Our country said their responsibility to make a list of the worst forms of child labor and to be organized by CONAETI (National Commission for the Elimination of Child), and locally by the Copreti (Provincial Commission Against Child Labour .) Miradas al Sur contacted both committees, but received no response.
The International Labour Organization, created the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour "said that, globally, the number of working children has decreased from 222 to 215 million during the period 2004/2008. 3 percent have very little.
According to numbers published by different organizations against child labor, Latin America is among the first in the ranking of child exploitation.
In Costa Rica, the problem is centralized in the tourism industry, which favors the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
In El Salvador, the worst forms of child labor occur in the planting and harvesting sugar cane.
In Paraguay, domestic work is what most concerns. There Cinderella campaign does not need a prince seeks to raise awareness homeowners who hire children, who think they do a favor but in reality are legalizing this work.
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