1,6 million children work in Colombia
The 12th of June was marked by the SIMPOC as the International Day for the Elimination of Child Labor in a reality that can be astonishing in the world. To say how many children work in the five continents is difficult because in many nations the phenomenon has not the enough importance and child labor is consider as ‘normal’. In Latin America the 19 percent of children between 4 and 14 years old of age are working, according to the studies of SIMPOC. Then we have Colombia with about 1,7 million labor children. The reasons why children become involved in labor are many, but developing societies like the ones of Colombia and Latin American are easy understandable: unfair females salaries, detriment of the agriculture, displacement by violence (refugees), poor conditions for education and general low salaries. Poor families easily accept the idea that their children have to work to help in the home economy and they see it as normal, while minors become easily prey of exploitation. (more…)
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