Paula Jannelle P.

Bernal
2DMC

Child Labour

A girl works at a charcoal production yard near the

south-western city of San Pédro. Workers are exposed to
dangerous smoke and charcoal fumes throughout the
day.

An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour - one in six
children in the world. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or
conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in
agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible,
toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops, hidden
from view in plantations.

 In Sub-Saharan Africa around one in three children are engaged in child labour,
representing 69 million children.
 In South Asia, another 44 million are engaged in child labour.
 The latest national estimates for this indicator are reported in Table 9 (Child
Protection) of UNICEF's annual publication The State of the World's Children.

Children living in the poorest households and in rural areas are most likely to be engaged
in child labour. Those burdened with household chores are overwhelmingly girls.
Millions of girls who work as domestic servants are especially vulnerable to exploitation
and abuse.

Labour often interferes with children’s education. Ensuring that all children go to school
and that their education is of good quality are keys to
preventing child labour.

11 Facts About Child Abuse

1. In 2008, one out of every 601.4 children were victims of physical abuse, with
parents of victims accounting for almost 80.1% of abusers.
2. 2.34 children out of 100,000 die from injuries relating to their abuse, with 80.8%
of deaths occurring in children under four years old.
3. For every incident of child abuse or neglect that gets reported, it’s estimated that
two others go unreported.
 4. Neglect is by far the most common form of child abuse, accounting for more than
78% of all cases.
5. Physical abuse accounts for 17.8% of documented child abuse cases each year.
6. A fourth of all girls and a sixth of boys are sexually abused by an adult before the
age of 17.
7. 8 out of 10 sexual abusers are someone in the family or someone the child knows.
8. Every month, at least 100 babies are born to drug-using mothers.
9. Of kids who have a parent who uses drugs, one in 13 is physically abused
regularly.
10. Abused children are more likely to abuse alcohol and become addicted to drugs,
and one third will later abuse their own children.
11. Of all prison inmates, 84% were abused as children.

Sources:

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-child-abuse
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html