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Thursday 13 September 2018

Child Labor in Ghana

Where it counts in the Western side of Africa holds child labor. Child labor in Western Africa is a typical thing because some individuals need to profit. With regards to child labor in Ghana, individuals either purchase or sell their children. After buying a child, that child goes all the way to the farm where people harvest the cocoa beans. Rita, a woman that works for the Farmers Union believes that all children should have to right training and not compelled to work. "It means we are denying the children, that of going to school. So it's bad. It means that we have failed the child in the future."- Rita.

Child Labour in India

India has the largest number of Child Labourers in the world. There are at least 60 million children are still working on various child labours. Child Labour is any work done by children that are underage, working in dangerous places, keeps them from getting an education and does harm to their health and development. Most of the children that are working till this day belongs to the low caste. The children that are working in India and the right to survive (clean water, food, shelter, clothes), the right to protection (feel safe) and the right to development (education, time to play, grow).