CHILD LABOUR

● Europeans and North American companies often use factories in developing countries because they're less expensive.

● It's difficult to check if factory owners employ children.

● In India, children under 14 can't work, but many do.

● Child workers have a bad health and don't go to school.

● Some parents have to sell their children because they are very poor.

● In Asia kids often make sports equipment.

● In Africa they often work in the cotton industry.

● They NEVER use the articles they produce.

● Some kids work in dangerous places.

Some numbers

● 171 million children working in the world, 127 million in Asia and Pacific Ocean.

● 5.7 million are forced into slavery.● 1.2 million are trafficked in the world.● 119 million are working in agricolture.