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Committee: 8 Topic: child labor Country: Thailand Joana Montoya Period 3 When you think about children you can imagine them playing on the side walk or at the park well that’s not the case of more than half of the children around the world each year more and more kids are being forced to work each year against their will. Child labor has been an issue since the first industrial revolution which was back in the late eighteen hundreds. Most of the children working are doing it for several reasons for example their either born into it,debt,selling of the child, abduction or sometimes kids even have to work in order to help support their family. Statistics show that 61% of Asian kids work,32% in Africa,7% in Latin America ,and 1% in Canada,U.S,and Europe combined.” the main reason that child labor is used is because of family expectations, child abuse ,lack of schooling, lack of services, and limited choices”.[ILO]children are often picked to work over adults because they are easier to exploit and can also be easily replaced. Recently ive only read about two organizations; two organizations have affiliated themselves with this issue, so far. those organizations are the ILO and the UNICEF.the ILO tends to focus their attention on more long term goals, they do this usually by setting rules/guidelines for that country to follow. The UNICEF helps support various projects world wide which inform people within that country and also the nations outside so that the government will help do more or ask for help. there are more organizations affiliated though. Thailand does not feel so strong about child labor that in fact they are trying to eliminate it by creating a mass media campaign,although there working age is thirteen. They are also setting up more inspectors to help eliminate it.the thai embassy has set up operation centers in 76 provinces so that it could address "unfair labor practices".migration to thailand has become some new thing.
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there are many possible soutions tochild labor. i think that that just bannng child labor comletley will do those children all good. even though they might get out of a job, they wont be exploited anymore.or they can just increase the age limit to work so that way there are still jobs but kids that are minors wont hae to work.