Today, 12th June, is world day against child labor.

There are some children in the world, who have to earn a living because they are poor. If they don’t work then they do not have enough to eat.
They are not able to go to school, or play with other children because they are busy doing odd jobs. We don’t feel good when these children have to work. Many of these children were rescued from their work-places and sent back home, but they are back to work, because if they don’t work, then they cannot eat.

On world day against child labor, we have to focus on the elimination of child labor. Worldwide, agriculture is the sector where the largest percentage of working children is found - nearly 70 percent. Over 132 million girls and boys aged 5 to 14 years old often work from sun up to sun down on farms and plantations, planting and harvesting crops, spraying pesticides, and tending livestock.

Each year the World Day Against Child Labor has often focused on one of the “Worst Forms of Child labor” listed in Convention No.182, starting with the Unconditional Worst Forms, such as child trafficking. This was then followed by child domestic work and then child labor in mining last year.

The event is aimed at mobilizing people around the world against child labor and its worst forms, reflecting local cultures and customs, while encouraging the participation of authorities, the media, civil society and the public at large.

Source: http://www.hrea.org/
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