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Committee: Topic: Child Labor Australia Edwin Duran Period 3
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Topic__**
 * __Background of the

Child labor has been a haunting subject that still today is present in our world legally and illegally. Child labor actually has been present through all time and has been active in families that are in debt and willing to give their child up and has also been present in big farm families. Although child labor is thought to be bad and harming to children it's actually not as bad in today's society due to child labor laws that defend children's' ability to work without the laws being violated. The countries that are involved are now are Africa, Asia, America, and illegally in Brittan. This I think can affect a child's education but help their independence because as families need money they want their children and although it's not the best thing it can help a child's perspective on life on an earning. "Child labor is the employment of children at regular and sustained labor. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations. Child labor was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the beginning of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during industrialization, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights. Child labor is still common in some places where the school leaving age is lower." [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Child_labor]

Involvement__**
 * __United Nations

The United Nations has been very involved with child labor reminding countries of child labor laws and sending Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The united nations has also been present in holding conventions and international laws. "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often referred to as CRC or UNCRC, is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. Nations that ratify this international convention are bound by it by international law. Compliance is monitored by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child which is composed of members from countries around the world. Once a year, the Committee submits a report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which also hears a statement from the CRC Chair, and the Assembly adopts a Resolution on the Rights of the Child. Governments of countries that have ratified the Convention are required to report to, and appear before, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child periodically to be examined on their progress with regards to the advancement of the implementation of the Convention and the status of child rights in their country. Their reports and the committee's written views and concerns are available on the committee's website." [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Convention_on_the_Rights_of_ the_Chi]

Policy__**
 * __Country

Australia is a participant to all major treaties that impact on chil`dren's rights. The rights and safety of children are govern by both Federal, state, and territory law. Persons below the age of eighteen are normally considered children. Children below the age of ten are powerless to be charged with a criminal offense and children between the ages of ten to fourteen have a refutable assumption that they are incapable of forming the necessary criminal intent for an offense. Children below the age of seventeen may not volunteer to join the armed services. Education of children is obligatory. __**Solutions**__ My solutions for this problem are that I that we should hold child conventions or meeting semiannually to discuss what child labor problems are happening around the world and how can we fix them and to uplift and remind countries of child labor laws. My other solution which goes with the first one is that we should said officials or observers to countries that are experiencing harsh child labor to monitor and help reduce child labor that way by monitoring. My last solution is that we stop buying are trading with countries that are doing child labor so that country can buckle down and be more strict in that problem.