Reasons why Child labor Should be Enforce Internationally (Essay Sample)

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Reasons why child labor should be enforce internationally
Child labor is one of the greatest problems around the globe because it puts young children in harm’s way. Exploiting young children in many ways can create challenges for them .According to research studies it is revealed that many of this problems are almost one sixth of the children found around the globe are forced into child labor which is a very alarming figure (Fontana 72). Similarly it is also established that in most case the condition in which such children are exposed to are dire and sometimes leave them vulnerable to physical and mental harm. Despite the sensitization of these issues and the development of many international labor agreements, child labor remains to be a firm practice in many countries across the globe. Among the reasons for this continued trend is the lack of proper enforcement of the international agreement against child labor owing to the lack appropriate legislation to prevent child labor or the inability of country to effectively, create jobs opportunities for the adults. However it not only the work of government to prevent child labor but also multinational corporations which are the most notorious in perpetuating child labor. With the recent rise in globalization, even more child is left vulnerable to child labor with the demand for cheap labor and maximization on profits. It is for this reason among other that child labor laws need to be enforced internationally in order to try to curb the menace.
It evaluated that poverty is the most popular reason that leads to the increased cases of child labor. When one thinks about young children, what comes to mind is a picture of children in their school outfits enjoying and running around. Because of their weak position, young children are refused the basic working privileges and pay like those given to older people. Most of them are at the age of learning and need to be protected from the gain all-around growth. It is inappropriate for them to be used as workers due to the lack of business ethics and appropriate regulations. Guardians and parents alike are found to contribute to child labor especially those who lack education. Some parents are not able to work thereby forcing their children to engage in commercial activities in order for the family to survive. In review of that demographic statistics it is found that children between the age of 5-14 are involved in child labor and are estimated to be about 154 million which account for - one in six children around the global (Nepal 52). Millions of young children are forced to work in dangerous situations such as mines, exposed to lethal substances such as fertilizer in farms as well as operating dangerous equipment. This happens many places in which the abuse goes unnoticed, working as household servants in homes, laboring in farms and other confined areas such as sweatshops (Child Labour Statistics).
For instance in Africa mostly more specifically in a country like Tanzania it is estimated that in the rural areas children are involved in several sectors of labor which include mining and cultivation of horticultural product such as coffee and tea. Studies show that the prevalence rate of child labor from the age of that 5 to 17 is roughly 25 percent of the total children population which are much higher the global average percentage of that child laborers (Hilliard 355). In review of why such could be the case, one find that in a country such as Tanzania poverty rates are high in the rural areas and due to illiteracy among parent they do not find it important for this children to go to school.
We find that illiteracy among guardians of children in child labor combined with poverty provides for a very bad situation that often leads to child labor. In many cases, parents would only prevent children from going to school if they knew the importance of school for the betterment of their children. The major concern on why child labor should end is the fact that this is sacrificing the child’s future that would be otherwise bright if the child were to go to school. So to safeguard the future of children in proper enforcement is required. Economically, it is assessed that children without proper education skill have very limited output in the national economy of a country as they are unable to develop their skill due to lack of basic education concepts (Almeida 12)
Another reason In Most cultures, children’s are expected to conduct chores. Therefore, young children are given an opportunity to work in family businesses from an early age. However, this may be pushed to the extreme and result into an incidence of child labor including low pay. Young children employed in non-agricultural areas of work must be over the age of fourteen and should not be exposed to many hours of work especially in areas deemed dangerous by the Department of Labor (Humphries 110). A good example is during the 90s in the United States, many children were hired in many sectors of business, however; the International Labor Organizations (ILO) in response to this proliferation of child labor began to set regulations that governed child labor. This rules entailed getting international agreement on conditions under which children of a specified age were not allowed to work, as well as determining the steps to take in reducing what was seen as the "worst forms" of child labor. There is a high chance for child labor to cause physical damage, because of long periods of work, which the tiny bodies are unable to handle in the same capacity as the adult bodies and, therefore, may suffer physically.
Additionally, Child labor practiced in industries with dangerous equipment can result in accidents such as cutting hands or inhalation of poisonous gasses. Child labor also puts children at risk of assault from the many pervasive adults within the same line of business they are made to work in. In Indian, for instance, the reality is that most of child workers manufacture cigarettes with sights of injured fingertips, and misused in many other ways. These young children are forced to operate for an extended period, breathing in cigarette smoke, and having to work in risky environments. The markets in which these kids are forced to work in areas that do not meet the standardized requirements and laws governing labor, and, therefore, they lack negotiating power with the employers always being shortchanged to the benefit of the companies resulting in exploitation (Dabney). Also, since young children are more susceptible in comparison to grownups and lack the power to negotiate.
They are subject to abuse and gross violation while being paid very little for their efforts. Some are even kidnapped, marketed to work without their consent and work into servitude. When young children take up work at such young ages and go under a wide range of violations and economic exploitation, it adversely affects their psychological and physical abilities. In India one case, a ten-year-old female child known as Ying had her fingertips almost used to the acicular bone because of her jobs of rolling to many tobaccos for a tobacco company. In the same 'beedi' market, another female child reviews that not only was her work hard but it was also agonizing for her to sit and continue for long periods of time without any break to make 3000 ‘beedi’ per day, for earning only 3 rupees per day (Dabney). As it is, a mature person can hardly make 2500 beedis at the same time. One also finds that children who work in industries that contain toxic fumes often may affect the health of the children who work in such places, especially in industries.
Another reason for enforcing child labor laws globally is the rise in child trafficking and sexual slavery. Children are sold like material goods to the highest bidder into a life of prostitution or domestic labor. In other countries such Thailand, children are forced to work in the street, and as prostitutes or for sex tourists (Close 11). Children who work on the streets may get sick because of the bad weather, and they do not have a fund for obtaining clothes. Physical, sex-related, or psychological misuse can keep severe effect on the kid for years. Sometimes some of those children are introduced to substance abuse while young and, as a result, getting they hooked. These types of atrocities can cause several problems that include psychological and actual physical development of such children (Brown 23). All this kinds of effects on the child may result in the poor growth of such a child who may turn out to be a person without virtues or morals. They could also become bad influences to other thus creating a redundant cycle of child destruction. The fact of the matter is that young children are most often denied their right because they are weak and in an area with no regulation, for example in developing countries, they become subject to misuse, violence, and sex-related exploitation. Nevertheless, improving access to knowledge and fighting the exploitation of such children head-on by enacting appropriate regulation are quite difficult especially in enforcement. There is still a long way to go. What should be done is to assist in that the fight against child labor internationally. There is a need for interaction between countries that are well able to combat child labor such as developed countries and the developing countries where the atrocities are found. This is because sex tourists and solicitors of sex are mainly from developed countries, which create demand for more children to be abducted and sold into prostitution.
Furthermore with the current trend of globalization where many companies are forced to relocate in search of cheaper and high-quality labor. For this reason, the same companies that may employ UN-ethical busi...