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CHILD LABOUR
● Europeans and North American companies often use factories in developing countries because they're less expensive.
● It's difficult to check if factory owners employ children.
● In India, children under 14 can't work, but many do.
● Child workers have a bad health and don't go to school.
● Some parents have to sell their children because they are very poor.
● In Asia kids often make sports equipment.
● In Africa they often work in the cotton industry.
● They NEVER use the articles they produce.
● Some kids work in dangerous places.
Some numbers
● 171 million children working in the world, 127 million in Asia and Pacific Ocean.
● 5.7 million are forced into slavery.● 1.2 million are trafficked in the world.● 119 million are working in agricolture.