...Child Labor: An Unrecognized Global Issue Abstract There is much knowledge that needs to be gained globally about child labor. Society needs to find ways to increase awareness in this matter. History has shown that child labor was almost necessary for the survival of families through hard economic times. The concept of children rights brought major change to the outlook of child labor. Children have the same large scale rights as adults do. Conventions have been established in place to protect the right of children here in the United States. Although our government has many laws in reference to child labor other nations do not recognize it as problematic and so it continues. In other countries children are being exploited by employers. These children are stripped of their right to have an education, a prosperous childhood, and of other rights. It can affect a child’s health and development. The objective of the following research paper is to raise awareness of the worldwide child labor issue and summarizes what is being done to help battle the issue. Introduction: Any issue that involves the abuse of young children is a sensitive matter. Images exist of children enduring maltreatment and abuse in different work settings. Child labor has been a long existing nationwide issue and although it is seen as a form of child abuse by many there are those that see it as a norm. Cultures in foreign nations believe that by placing a child in money paying work conditions...
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...Poverty and Children in the United States Patsy Fox Soc 120 June 26, 2011 Barbara Romero Poverty and Children in the United States The United States is one of the richest nations in the world, and yet millions of Americans live at or below the poverty level and many more struggle each month not to fall into this category. Unfortunately, the number of children in our society that are living in poverty is increasing daily. Many of these children are from single-parent homes where the parent is not working or have become disabled. Early parenthood is also a big contributor to this situation. Poverty in the United States is largely due to low family incomes and the declining job market. Poverty can best be described as the lack of resources to meet the basic needs of healthy living, or not having sufficient income to provide food, shelter, and clothing for oneself or one’s family. The causes of families finding themselves in this type of situation are continuing to grow on a daily basis. In today’s economy, often people find themselves losing their jobs and living in areas where job opportunities are slim at best. Lack of education can also limit the opportunities that are available to an individual. With the economic downturn that we have experienced, many American’s are faced with the loss of long time jobs when factories and business close suddenly. Many of these individuals may find themselves completely unprepared for today’s job market because they have been in their...
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...Letter of Recommendation for Child Adoption Graciela Thompson Institutional Affiliation Introduction In the United States, and many parts of the world child adoption is a legal act and an individual or a family will be granted this right by the child adoption agency if they prove that they will be fully responsible for the adopted child (Skidmore, Anderson & Eiswerth, 2011). Child adoption places a child with parents who are not his/her real biological mother or father. Upon the formalization of the child adoption contract, the rights or responsibilities of the real biological parents seize immediately. For one to successfully adopt a child, he/she will have to present a letter of recommendation to the adoption agency, usually written by a person who knows them well (Hughes & Davidson, 2007). The letter will include a brief analysis of the character of the adopter and important factors that makes him/her a suitable and a responsible parent. The letter will later be taken to a lawyer where it will go through the notarization process. Below is a letter of recommendation for child adoption. To Whom It May Concern: My name is Cynthia Adams and I have worked with Miss Jane Smith for a period of ten years now. We are still working together as school teachers and have really enjoyed her company since we first met. Our continued friendship has been propagated by the fact that Jane is one special individual...
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...Child labor is can be defined as “employing children who are under aged to work as determined laws of a state” (Pakhare, 2011). Child labor has been an issue for centuries. The years of 1780 through 1840 there was an enormous increase in child exploitation. During the Industrial Revolution it was common to find children working in factories. In 1778, more than 60% of workers in textile mills of England and Scotland were children (ILO, 2010). Children were required to work in poor conditions, often for 16 or more hours in a single day. In some cases, children were committed to work for an employer for a set amount of years in exchange for food, shelter, and clothing. Many poor families needed their children to work in order to pay for food and shelter expenses; the dependence on child labor was vital for survival in many cases. Throughout the 20th century, the need and dependency for child labor substantially changed. Child labor has harmful effects that hurt the physical and emotional development of children, and that is a huge topic all countries should think about when using kids for labor because kids are the future of the societies. In developing countries, around 16% of the child population from age 5-14 years old is involved in child labor (IPEC, 2110). According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there are 218 million children aged 5-17 years old engaged in child labor (ILO, 2010). The 1900 census in the USA found that 18% of all children (almost...
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...The needs of children at age three in a child care setting are based on fundamental rights outlined by the United Nations. Overviews of the stages of development that occur during a child’s third year of life and best practices for physical and psychological development of this age group in the United Kingdom are examined. Research shows the United Kingdom is behind other developed countries in child development services. There is a need for qualified professionals to serve in the child care industry. Full day care settings lack more than 120,000 qualified providers across Britain (Department for Education, 2011). Three-year-old children are developing in stages that change rapidly, from being completely dependent on caregivers to learning self-care skills such as toileting, dressing, cooking, and climbing. Being three is full of exciting opportunities for exploration through play and social interactions that will help the childern learn to function in the world around them. Children at the three-year old stage of physical development are growing out of the toddler stage and have learned to walk and run, have a full set of baby teeth, and sleep between 10-12 hours a night with few if any daytime naps. My own three year old son does not take a nap and hasn’t since he was two and a half years old. Most three-year-olds are transitioning out of nappies or are able to use the toilet. A normally developing three year old can wash his or her hands, hop on one foot and kick...
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...Lewis). Same sex marriage has been a hot topic in the United States for a very long time. This issue is highly important because marriage is a human right and it a basic moral that all should know. Many people are against gay marriage because according to many right wing conservatives being gay is a choice and that it is against what we learn from the bible. Same sex marriage should be legalized in every state in the United States because it is a basic human right, it shows family values and anti- discrimination, will increase children adoption rates and same sex marriage will also bring financial benefits. Gay marriage should be legal in the United States because it is a basic human right. Although conservatives will continue to debate the issues of gay rights and same sex marriages for years to come, there has been many improvements. Many individuals that oppose gay marriage will “come to understand the fundamental injustice of subjecting gay and lesbian Americans to their own form of Jim Crow rather than sharing in equal rights for all” (Lampo). There is no different from what this nation did to African Americans during the Civil rights movement, to what we are doing to same-sex couples today, not allowing them to get marries. Recognized federal civil rights law in the United States is grounded in the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court. By this standard, marriage has long been established as a civil right. The operative constitutional text is section 1 of...
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...Child Trafficking Herman noble University of Alabama at Birmingham May 7 2012 Human trafficking has become an international problem that has developed into a world social issue. There are many forms of human trafficking such as child trafficking, abduction, and laundering. This is a major problem because human trafficking is illegal and a violation of human rights. Nevertheless, this repulsive act is continuously committed. Poverty, greed, corruption, supply and demand, is the components of human trafficking. Some have argued and defined human trafficking as the removing of any orphan from their culture and placing them in an unrelated different environment. Nevertheless, it is the poor non-educated families from developing or sending nations that suffer the most. Kenya and other nations have been affected by human trafficking in one way or another, while the United State avoids legal responsibility and accountability in such matters. Kenya’s issue is child abduction. This type of human trafficking is increasing around the world. Children are abducted and forced to fight in armies. The majority of the world’s conflict is fought by children. Healy (2008) states: Children are recruited primarily because they are easily to control and indoctrinate…Some are abducted or conscribed by force;…Girls are abducted into armies, some to serve as soldiers, others for sex, and often both(p.96). Bondo district, Kenya is characterized by high levels of poverty, and a HIV prevalence...
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...Information Office of China’s State Council, launched its own criticism of the U.S. as “the world judge of human rights” (“China Hits Back”), and denounced the apparent distor-tions of the PRC’s human rights record. For example, the report condemned the United States for the following: Firearms-related crimes threatening the well-being of Americans; elections that do not fully reflect the real will of its citizens. Using for example, the 2012 presidential race, which had a voter turnout of only 57.5 percent; finally, criticizing the income gap of the United States as the greatest in the developed world (“China Hits Back”). Japanese Comfort Women Although further back in history, Ambassador Cong also criticized the government of Ja-pan for...
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... Conflict diamonds are also sold to fund civil wars or for the rise of a warlord. Conditions in diamond mining are not always honorable and they are completely horrific. Almost all of the diamond miner in Africa live in poverty, earning and average pay of less than a dollar a day. Also, child labor is overly common and their working conditions are very frequently hazardous. The connection of violence...
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...and inalienable rights, and that they are entitled to such rights without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Human rights are basic rights and freedoms that each individual human being is entitled to. Human rights assert that humans are given certain entitlements simply for being a human. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscious and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2010). They were developed in a democratic and universal manner. Throughout the world, human rights are acknowledged in various ways, such as shared norms of human moralities, justified moral norms, natural rights, or legal rights which are enforced at either a national level or within international law. However, the concept of human rights has been a heated topic of debate, as there is no consensus as to what should or should not be considered a human right. Human rights are relatively modern, only being in force for just over 50years, however the foundation of this concept is seen in the history of philosophy and concepts of natural law, rights and liberties in classical Greece and the development of Roman Law. Human rights concepts have existed for a lot of human history; however these liberties that are known can hardly be considered human rights as such. The idea...
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...Each country has its own laws, regulations, legislations, policies and procedures they need to abide by for all areas, including disability and inclusion in education. In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, there are a multiple laws, regulations, legislations, policies and procedures that contribute to the disability and inclusion in education. In Australia some of these are Disability standards for Education (2005), the DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT (1992), Australian Education Act (2013), Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990), The Education and Care Services National Law Act (2010), The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (2008), United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009)...
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...Child Prostitution Child prostitution refers to children and adolescents receiving money or other items of value in exchange for engaging in sexual acts or allowing sexual acts to be performed on them. Child prostitution is a form of sexual abuse. According to Child Maltreatment, published in 2008, sexual abuse is defined as a type of maltreatment that refers to the involvement of the child in sexual activity to provide sexual benefit or financial benefit to the perpetrator, including contacts for sexual purposes, molestation, statutory rape, (child) prostitution, (child) pornography, exposure, incest or other sexually exploitative activities. Both girls and boys may be prostituted. Some children have had hundreds of sex partners. They usually continue a life of prostitution into adulthood. Federal laws in the United States, as well as laws in every state, ban child prostitution. In the United States, any person who knowingly transports any child under the age of 18 years in interstate or foreign commerce or in any commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, with the intent that the individual engage in prostitution or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, may be fined or imprisoned. In some states, such as Maine and Wisconsin, prostituting one's child is specific grounds for the termination of parental rights. (In other states, parental rights may be terminated for sexual abuse, abandonment...
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...elements are being exploited. Among 150 million children aged 5 to 14 in developing countries, 16% are involved in child labor. Child labor is the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. It includes all physical activity, considered harmful and dangerous to the development of the child and interferes with their education. Child labor reinforced intergenerational cycles of poverty, undermines national economies and impedes achieving progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It violates a nation’s minimum age laws and uses children to undermine labor standards. 14 million child laborers (7%) live in Latin America. Thus, the prevention and eradication of child labor has become a very important priority in all nations. The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. At 3.79 million square miles in total and with around 318 million people, the Unites States is the fourth largest country by land area as well as, the third largest by population. It is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States is also extremely diverse, and it is home to a wide variety of wild life. Forms of child labor including indentured servitude and child slavery have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops...
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...However the Queensland Law Society believe that this change contravenes international conventions (Queensland Law Society, 2014). As stated in the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child has a right to protection of privacy, which this change disregards. Also stated in the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, the law should have the best interest of, and aim to benefit the child (Unicef Australia 2014). An open court trial does not benefit the child in anyway, but instead the child is exploited, it would be much more beneficial if the child’s case was held a...
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...human right and essential for all other human rights. It is a powerful tool by which socially and economically marginalized children and adults can lift themselves out of poverty. It also consists of the right to freedom of education. Freedom education is the right given to human beings to have access to the education of their preference without any constrictions. Right to education is a human right recognized by the United States. It includes the entire compulsion to eliminate inequity at all levels of the educational system. What is right to education? Education is the most important thing in life, it makes sense, it effect on mind, it change the character. The right to education is an inherent right. Right to education is the right which deals with the right to know and right to change their life and life style. The various types of right to education are primary education, secondary education, vocational education and higher education. “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit”. Education shall be free for development of human personality. The human rights are developing of understanding, gender quality and make a friendship among all nations. Human rights education is provided information about human right to the...
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