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What is child labor and child trafficking?

y When children have to work hardy

Sometimes the whole family works together but that is stillchild labor but family businesses dont count.

y The working can stunt their growth, if you work long hoursyou dont develop like you should because you need food

exercise. Sometimes it takes away their innocence.

y Not all the kids get beat/ punished.y Sometimes the children get harassed

Some get to go home

y Child trafficking= means they are forced to work but if theparents force them to work then thats not trafficking

thats child labor

y Child engaging in any kind of work that is not ageappropriate.

y If the childrens rights are affected then it is child labor.y Jobs that can be harmful to the Childs help.y If you are being forced into child labor instead of getting

education.

y It is parents duty to keep children in school. It is thechilds right to be educated.

y IN most countries it is needed for the children to go toschool.

What does child labor mean to you?

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y Child engaging in any kind of work that is not ageappropriate.

y If the childrens rights are affected then it is child labor.y Jobs that can be harmful to the Childs help.y If you are being forced into child labor instead of getting

education.

y It is parents duty to keep children in school. It is thechilds right to be educated.

y IN most countries it is needed for the children to go toschool.

y Governments should help family support the children togo school.

How Ms. Chemba and Ms. Maki helps them:

y They work with the governments so they work aboutthe laws.

y Adults interview the kids and try to help them. Andtalk to the parents to take the kids to school instead

of working. If we find a kid who is in labor we can call

a police and arrest the people who are forcing them

to work. So they make sure all the kids are in school

instead of working. Gather information and then

publish it and get the public support.

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Globally

y The global population of child labor dropped from 222million to 215 million or 3% in 4 years which means slow

progress.

y Great progress for children aged 5-14 where thepopulation of the child laborers dropped by 10%.

y Child laborers which are girls decreased by 15% but boysincreased in 7%. Child labor amongst young children

increased by 20% from 52 million to 62 million.

y Sector y Global y EAPy Agriculture y 70% y 67.3%y Services y 21% y 27.2%y Manufacturing y 7% y 4.4%y

Thailand has started to:

y Improve partnerships and among committed agencies toenforce existing laws

y Keep up to date with what is changing in child labor.y Provide education and opportunities for children

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y Raise awareness for the negative impact on child labory Develop great practices throughout the country and

elsewhere.

y These projects are at Chiang Rai, Pattani, Samut Sakhon,Songkhla, Tak and Udon Thani

y Children are mostly from Myanmar but there are alsochildren from Lao, Cambodia and children up north.

y Very poor people from the north and Muslim people fromthe south.

Improvements:

y Improvements have been very good the past decade.y The children cant be younger than 15 and there are

strict limits for children 15-17.

y There is now a law for basic education includingunregistered migrants.

y Child labor practices have to be checked by ILOy Mandatory for kids to go to school till year 10 it used to be

till year 6

y If the kids dont go to school, then the government wouldfind out and recommend for them to go to school, but if

they still dont go to school, then the child would be taken

care of by someone else.

2006:

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y 2006 78.4% were female and 27.8% below age of 15y 95% got less than 4000 baht a month children begging on

the streets got less than that.

y 14.5% were coerced into beggingy In Chiang Rai, the child labor population includes Thai, Lao,

Burmese, and hilltribe children.

Why:

y Poverty (sometimes): The family needs extra help.y Attitudes, tradition & culture: Role and responsibilities of

children, class/status roles. People might think its not a

smart thing to let girls learn/ get a good job because they

are afraid the girls.

y Crisis: There could be a problem in the family with moneyor a family problem which needs the children to go work.

y Employers: Its cheaper to let children work because it lesslikely for the children to get their rights.

y Not very good laws to protect children and not goodenforcement of the laws that exist.

Why:

y Poverty (sometimes): The family needs extra help.

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y Attitudes, tradition & culture: Role and responsibilities ofchildren, class/status roles. People might think its not a






Stories:

y There could be school while they are working so firstthey work then they learn but then they work again.

The boys were blinded because they hardly went out

of the factory.

y There was once a girl, she was mentally handicapped.Someone came to her village and asked her if she

wanted to work for a family and the family said it was

a good idea so she went to work. Her family never

heard from her so her family went to the principle.

The principle found out where she was and told the

government. The time she was at the house they took

her phone and she wasnt allowed to leave the house.

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y Attitudes, tradition & culture: Role and responsibilities ofchildren, class/status roles. People might think its not a






Numbers:

y Asia-Pacific region has the most children working in childlabor around the world with children the age groups 5-17.

UNICEF is guessing that there are 113.6 million children

trapped in child labor in Asia Pacific region.

y 2006 78.4% were female and 27.8% below age of 15y 95% got less than 4000 baht a month children begging on

the streets got less than that.

y 14.5% were coerced into beggingy In Chiang Rai, the child labor population includes Thai, Lao,

Burmese, and hilltribe children.

y 48 million children (5.6%) of this age group are engaged inwork that is considered hazardous

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y There is now 4% less children working in child labor inAsia- Pacific region from 2004 to 2008.

y East Asia & Pacific is the region with the smallestpercentage of child workers not going to school 84.6% of

economically active children aged 7-14 years are in school

Types of child labor

Agriculture;

y Crops/ farms (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand)y Fish/shrimp processing (Cambodia, Thailand)y Offshore/ deep sea fishing (Indonesia, Philippines,

Thailand)

y Livestock herding (Mongolia)y R

ubber plantations (Cambodia, Philippines)y Plantations of coffee, palm oil, tea, vanilla (Papua

New Guinea), sugarcane (Philippines),

Helping people:

y Child domestic work (Cambodia, Mongolia, Indonesia,Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)

y Wholesale and retail trade in the market and in the street(Cambodia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand)

y Rag picking/scavenging (Cambodia, Papua New Guinea,Vietnam, Thailand)

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y Services and entertainment (Lao PDR, Cambodia)Child commercial sexual exploitation:

y Child prostitutiony Small and medium enterprises in informal sector

(Mongolia)

y Construction (Thailand)

Making:

y Bricks (Lao PDR, Cambodia)y Footwear (Indonesia)y Garment factories (Lao PDR, Vietnam)y Mining and quarrying (Mongolia, Indonesia, Philippines)y Pyrotechnics/fireworks (Philippines)y Salt (Cambodia)

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Child commercial sexual exploitation 6r7./

y The government usually helps the child pay but firsthe has to find out about it.

y People can misuse their authority as an adult becausethey have access to them

y DONATESources:

y Mike Fucellay UNICEFy http://www.ilo.org/ipec/lang--en/index.htm y http://www.ilo.org/asia/whatwedo/projects/lang--

en/WCMS_099122/index

y ILOy Ms. Maki Katsuno UNICEF, works with the government.y Ms. Chemba UNICEF educationy MS. Patricia Bracciy http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/b

angkok/download/yr2008/cl08_overview.pdf

y http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/371

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Extras:

y Children dont always know what is good for them.y Schools should be more attractive so the kids will want to

come to school.

y The kids can be having some financial reasons, so theyhave to take a break from school to support their family.

Notes (Ms. Maki and Ms. Chemba )

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They help get kids back in school

y What country has the biggest population of childlaborers?

yy Who forces them to work?yyy When did child labor start?yy How do you feel about child labor?

y There could be school while they are working so firstthey work then they learn but then they work again.

The boys were blinded because they hardly went out

of the factory.

y

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