Ending Child Labor
Your Nike shoes that cost you 150 dollar and your 70 dollar pair
of Levi Strauss jeans were most likely made by a young person
from the age of 5-14 living in Indonesia, Honduras, China or
Haiti. They are forced to work with no benefits, low wages, long
hours, and unsanitary conditions. They are basically slaves.
Some factory management assault, rape, and abuse the workers.
Children are the majority that dies from this immoral
exploitation. According to http://www.solidaritycenter.org
Children are forced to work up to 15 hours a day, seven days a
week in factories and in fields. These children are deprived of
schooling, beaten, sexually abused, engorged and forced to work
in dangerous unsanitary conditions. The children are sold to
employers who pay families for the use of their child.
211 million children from the ages of 5-14 work worldwide in
sweatshops. The U.S. government estimated that, 50,000 to
100,000 each year women and children are trafficked in the
United States, half of which are trafficked into domestic
servitude and sweatshop labors from various countries.
Trafficking is a slavery-like practice that must be eliminated.
Trafficking in women and children is now considered the third
largest source of profits for organized crime, behind only drugs
and guns," An estimated 200,000 Bangladeshi women have been
trafficked to Pakistan over the last 10 years, the majority
being young women.
According to a Press Release March 2005
With an estimated 600,000