Child Labor

Globalization always provides advantages to the world, especially to the third world countries. More jobs opportunities to improve the living standard of the undeveloped and developing countries. However, at the same time, there are a lot of troubles that are not expected by the people appear. Child Labor is one of the serious problems that is happening in the developing countries.
Today, all the advance countries will provide a very well education environment to children, because they understand that children are the future of a country. Therefore, the adults have to keep their children growing in a healthy and high educational environment. Children would be able to contribute to the nation when they grow up. For example, in America, the children are always the first priority to be protected under law. Children are encouraged to study and learn at any time. Unfortunately, the cases in the developing countries are totally different.
Lacking of education and knowledge cause the serious problem of child labor, the adults do not understand that the children are not born for work, but to build up the countries in the future. So, they are just trying to make the living conditions better right now instead of taking a long-term investment. Since the people in the developing countries are very poor, health care are not provided to them. They have no ideas of family plan, so it means they do not have birth-control policy. At the same time, they are having a wrong idea of giving births as well. They think that more children are born, and then they will have more labor force. The adults always have the children to work at the time they should be study and learn.
Even though their birth rate is very high, the death rate is very high as well; the government does not have enough budgets to provide an adequate facilities and health to the women, so it makes their population pyramid very unbalance. Since too many youth cannot survive for a long time, so they keep on giving birth in order to keep up the labor force size. When more children are working the society, more problems will be appeared too. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has predicted that there are 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen working in the developing countries.Those uneducated children will have a very high possibility to get involve into violence no matter at home and work places. Also, they will commit crime easily since they do not go to school.

On the other hand, the employers might make use of the children by paying them very low, and have them to do those dangerous jobs as well, because children do not know how to refuse to do those jobs that they are not capable to do. Under this situation, children will get hurt easily, and human right is definitely being violated.

We can not slove this problem on our own, but there are a lot of organizations working on the problem and can give us a lot of information about Child Labor such as the Child Labor Coalition(CLC) and Human Rights Watch. And as more people concern on the issue and support those organizations, the problem can be solved in the future.