The painful problem of child labor exploitation

(Baonghean.vn) - Instead of studying and playing, hundreds of millions of children around the world are having to work in dangerous, toxic environments to sustain their lives.

World Day Against Child Labour was first launched by the ILO in 2002 to raise awareness of the issue of child labour worldwide, and to encourage governments, employers' organisations, trade unions, civil society organisations and millions of children and adults around the world to raise their commitment to child labour and to communicate to change this situation.

Currently, around the world, there are about 168 million children who have been and are at risk of being exploited for labor. Although the world has made many efforts to change, child labor is still very common in many countries, especially underdeveloped countries in Africa, Afghanistan, or developing countries such as India, Brazil.

The burden of making a living weighs heavily on the young shoulders of these poor children. For them, having enough to eat is already a difficult task, and going to school and playing like other children seems like a distant dream.

Although very young, they have to work hard to earn money to feed their families.

Child laborers are exploited from a young age in a variety of jobs.

Countries with alarming rates of child labor include India, Brazil and Kenya.

Child labor is cheap and there is always a large pool of poor children willing to take the job.

When surrounded by poverty, working to earn money is the top priority for children and their parents instead of studying.

A boy collects recyclable plastic at a landfill in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many children work daily at the site, just a few kilometers from the famous Angkor temples.

A child laborer covered in coal in Meghalaya, India. Child labor is illegal in the country, but there are exceptions in Meghalaya.

A child worker at a car repair shop in Bolivia, where child labor protection laws are still far from enforced.

An Afghan child stacks bricks on the outskirts of Herat.

A boy was beaten by his boss for sewing a shirt too slowly. The image was recorded at Narayanganj factory - the center of the garment industry in Bangladesh.

The problem of child labor not only does not decrease but is also on the rise.

The United Nations warns that forcing children to work at such a young age is a serious violation of children's rights and their health will be directly affected by hard labor from too early an age.

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