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Before you wear that gifted necklace, decorate your drawing room with that affordable carpet, savour a long awaited chocolate and prepare biriyani for weekend party; wait! Think about the millions who were exploited, overworked, beaten or worse abandoned/killed – only to make us happy! Child Labour is a shame on us! tweet
As an intelligent civilization, we are innovating new ideas and adopting breakthrough strategies to reach advanced stages of social, cultural, and economical development worldwide, but there are many things that offer a slap on our ambitious efforts. The International Labour Organization estimates that 215 million children ages 5-17 are engaged in child labour (Source), approximately six out of ten slaves in the world are bonded labourers in South Asia (Source), only one out of five children involved in child labour is paid for his or her work(Source). Those little folks are tired, unhappy, frail and frightened. At an age when they should play, read, write, and learn, they despair for their existence, and spend an unpredictable future. Are we listening?
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future – Alexis Herman
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms – Barry Commoner
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet? ― Félix J. Palma, The Map of Time
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Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!” – Mother Jones
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time – Grace Abbott