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Network news: the problem of child labor is one of the most serious problems spread in many countries of the world, especially as some reports suggest growing this dangerous phenomenon in spite of appeals continued calling to care for and improve the lives of children, which is guaranteed by a lot of international conventions on children's rights in all parts of the world regardless of race, sex, religion, level of social or political orientation.
The concept of child labor is work that puts a heavy burden on the child, which threatens the safety and health and welfare, and the General Assembly of the United Nations has issued the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, known as a child as every human being below the age of eighteen and stressed the need to strive for the protection of the child from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the education or harmful to their health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, and necessitated the States parties to take appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to ensure such protection, and in particular a minimum Joining age and appropriate regulation of the hours and conditions of employment and to impose appropriate sanctions to ensure the effective application of these texts. Topping India, Bangladesh and the Philippines to the list of countries that contribute to child labor in the manufacture of various types of products, it showed three reports to the U.S. Department of Labor. Has been manufacturing about 140 kinds of products thanks to child labor in 71 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the ministry said.
In India, the industry contributes to children in twenty products including bricks, fireworks and sports balls. In Bangladesh, child labor has allowed industry 14 different products such as watches, textiles and footwear. In the Philippines, children work in the manufacture of 12 types of products such as tobacco and fashion accessories. The number of working children in the world's estimated 215 million children lead more than half of them in hazardous labor, according to reports.
On the other hand employs about 2.5 million children in Central America, especially in the agriculture sector especially, in difficult and dangerous conditions to cast a shadow on the future and development of this region, as revealed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). And revealed the International Labour Organization that 21% of minors who ranged in age from 5 years to 17 years working in Guatemala, as opposed to 15% in Honduras, and 13% in Nicaragua, and 10% in Belize, and 7% in Panama, and 6% in El Salvador, and 5 % in Costa Rica.
In this region of the world where affects poverty, 40% of the population of 45 million, depriving This entry was premature to the labor market of children "of the education and training necessary" to put themselves and provide their families and communities, according to confirmed in a statement Virgilio Levaggi Director of the ILO Office in Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The Director emphasized that "children who are victims of the worst types of work are subjected to ill-treatment of physical, psychological and moral can affect them until the end of their lives."
In the same context, an official report showed that about 1.5 million children between five and seven years of age were working in Colombia, bringing the percentage of child labor in the country to 13%. And said Jorge Boustamantih, director of the Center for National Statistics said, "It is a fact embarrassing because every developed society's goal is not to have children working." He added that "about 23% of the working children do not go to school."
Official data show that Colombia with a population of 44.9 million, including 11.2 million children aged between five and seventeen, representing about a quarter of the total population. Has announced 31.7% of the children who work rather than pursue their studies they are doing so voluntarily to make money, while 27,6% of them acknowledged that they are forced to work to help their families.
The more than half of working children they did not receive any remuneration, while 28.3% of them said they were employees and 20% of them said they knew at their own expense. And one-third of these children work in hotels and restaurants, and the other third in agriculture or fishing and 16.1% of them in the laboratory, according to the report, which did not mention the exploitation of minors in situations of armed groups or prostitution rings.
Meanwhile, a study published by the non-governmental organization "Sesfa" that more than 1.1 million children teach in Kenya push them to their families or their surroundings. She Christine Aoteyto the responsible and the Kenyan Ministry of Labour during the presentation of the report "Child labor is not a problem but part of the external life of families."
She says, "This study raises concern because of the ignorance of children and their surroundings rights." The study showed that these minors under the age of eighteen spend an average of four hours per day working for a daily wage less than one dollar on farms and construction sites, or even in the area of prostitution. He Diego Otolena the supervisor of this study, "half of the children who work appreciate that they contribute to the family income by 20 to 50%." According to Agence France Presse.
In some cases, the child's only source of income for the family. Elios said Opio from "African Network for the Prevention and protection from exploitation of children", "spotted cases where the child believes the needs of disabled parents or the child is an orphan." Opio added, "It's more complicated cases because if we stopped the child from work, people who depend on it to find themselves without any solution." In the world's 25 million children work in exchange for wages, slightly more than half of them in hazardous conditions.
The phenomenon of child trafficking
It is home to prostitution service for girls and crafts for boys, sending hundreds of children each year from West Africa to Gabon to work in the country illegally, after being caught in the clutches of human trafficking operations. Suffice it to roam in Mont Bouet market the largest in Libreville to form an idea of the magnitude of this phenomenon. Dozens of children who are at a young age sometimes toil from morning to evening under the scorching sun. And carries some heavy cement bags on their shoulders, while others are trying to sell dried fish or sweets.
In the course of more than ten years, I pulled out more than 700 children from the clutches of human trafficking operations in Gabon and sent back to their home countries, as revealed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). But the number of victims of child trafficking is still high. No one knows in fact, "the number of children who work specifically vendors workers or domestic workers, since they do not have official documents and are working in the informal market," as explained Michel Xamba the UNICEF representative in Gabon.
Let us bring children to this small country, which has oil wealth and is one of the most developed countries in Africa, "child traffickers resort to illegal migration channels," according to Michel Xamba. And often lay the boats laden with immigrants from West Africa, fleeing the misery and unemployment in their country, on the shores of Libreville, when night falls. In 2009, the Navy stopped in Gabon a boat "Sharon" who was carrying 300 immigrants on board, including 34 children, UNICEF took care of them.
In most cases, the parents in the country remains clinging to empty promises and convinced small amounts of money. The nun told Margorit Buandala responsible for the centers "Espoir er Ercansiel" in Libreville Society's "Caritas" that "people are told that their children Sertadon school, then give them 20 thousand CFA francs (about 30 euros) to convince them." Does not know the majority of the children of Benin, Togo, Nigeria and Mali determination cache them in the territory of Gabon.
And assured Sister Margorit, that "trafficking networks Children Organization grandfather, and often puts children when traders are families of their own ... they who earn their wages." According to UNICEF, is who exploit children for the purposes of economic victims of other acts of violence, including sexual exploitation by employers houses. Sonia was at the age of six, when they reached the from Quito village south Benin to Gabon. And was told "you go early to the market for the sale of goods., And when you come back to the house, they were asking me to do domestic work The old man Nbarhani was beaten. They were say I am their daughter, but I know that this is not true."
The Sonia fled from the house at the end of the day, but few are the children who manage to escape from the grip of "new parents" who make their return only in this strange country, where do not have any official documents do not get any salary. The authorities have launched in Gabon, in cooperation with UNICEF training course in five large cities to help judges and police and judicial staff in the social services sector to put an end to the phenomenon of trafficking in children. According to Agence France Presse.
Performed is a girl in the age of fourteen she joined a training course for hairdressers in the center of the "Espoir" in Libreville not to go back to her empty hands and sink back into poverty. They are doing well, according to Sister Margorit.
Lebanon and Yemen
Meanwhile, warned a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) "ILO" that the employment rate among children in Lebanon rise at high rates, in light of the high standard of living and harsh economic conditions. It was noted in the study involving researchers from the University of Saint Joseph, that the percentage of school dropouts rose significantly at the national level in Lebanon, especially in the north and the Bekaa, where the percentage use of children in various business to 40 per cent in the Bekaa region only, which works most of the children where to agriculture or industry.
The study, which included 1007 children working between the ages of five and seventeen, of 174 family is different, unveiled demographic characteristics and economic and social conditions of working children, in addition to the types of businesses that they do, and the consequences for their social, physical and intellectual.
The study, which included both sexes, male and female, the average wage earned by working children a week of 51.740 thousand Lebanese pounds (34.00 dollars) in the regions of northern Lebanon and 50 thousand pounds (33.24 U.S. dollars) in the Bekaa region. The study, that there are many factors that have helped the spread of the use of children Koada worker and the denial of rights to education and care, and on top of these factors, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment as reasons key to this phenomenon, in addition to poor application of national laws on the protection of children.
The study recommended a number of plans to reduce child labor, including the amendment of the law work to raise the minimum age of employment to 15, and raised to 18 in hazardous work and 13 in light work, and to punish the exploitation of displaced persons, in addition to expanding the scope of inspections to cover the entire territory of Lebanon.
Besides pointed latest statistical reports issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to the presence of 1.6 million children work in Yemen, which raises the state of emergency requiring international action to help reduce this phenomenon. According to the FAO report, which was published on its website that the proportion of children aged between five and 17 years in Yemeni society is 34.3 per cent and promised up to 7.7 million children. According to CNN.
The report pointed out that 21 per cent of the 7.7 million children in Yemen are used in local business which is very high and requires rapid intervention. The report highlighted that the proportion of children working in the agricultural sector amounted to 56.1 per cent in the domestic services sector accounted for 29 per cent plus 7.9 per cent of them are working in other sectors such as wholesale and retail trade. The report on the lips of Regional Director of the Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Nada dry "must be the protection of children in Yemen a priority." Noting that "the development in Yemen depend on it."
Samsung check
In the same context, said the organization "Child LIBOR Watch" for the defense of children's rights, based in New York, said investigators followers have reached evidence to suggest the occurrence of violations of the right of children through their work in a factory owned by the company "H any LG Electronics" in China and a subsidiary of Samsung. She explained that seven children were identified under the age of 16 years within the factory workers.
But Samsung said it did not come up with any evidence of a violation of the Employment Act when it conducted its own investigation. The South Korean electronics company's famous statement that "Samsung Electronics conducted two separate Fychen in location in the working conditions in Aceh AG this year, but did not reach any excesses in these events."
She explained that "a team of inspectors including individuals from Samsung based in Korea will be sent to Huizhou, China and will open an investigation immediately and take appropriate action to remedy any problems that may arise." The organization said "Child LIBOR Watch" The investigators had limited contact with other departments at the factory, and there may be dozens of other staff young children.
And felt that the H-AG has a "weak internal control mechanisms." She explained that this problem resulted in the failure of H AG registered in the detection of young people who had contact with senior students who were sent to work in the factory during the summer school holidays and winter. The organization is also concerned about the injuries of workers and how to deal with the additional wages.
Children in mines
On the other hand promotes Sanjay Chhetri son thirteenth every day and fear itself deeply: that breaks down the coal mine where he works and die inside, like that of thousands of children in India's northeast who make their living working within the narrow tunnels so can not only children's access to it. And enjoy this slim boy with a fine bone structure appropriate strength to work in the mining industry in profit-generating mandate Megalaa, as the access to the dark corridors and wetlands to the mines, is available in front of people, adults.
The Sanjay work in the darkness of night where sliding down the stairs, along with Maulan and a small lamp in front of me, and unfathomable depths of the mine down to a depth of 1400 meters below the ground. Still cautious navigates the same as in the offing in the work seven months ago, fearing a slide and incidence to the bottom. Once entering the mine, squat as much as possible to enter into a hole 60 cm high and dragging behind an empty cart. Here are his nightmare begins: "It is terrible to imagine that breaks down the ceiling on through my work," says the boy. After 12 hours of work, Sanjay earns 200 rupees (3.7 dollars). This meager amount exceeds that earned his family workers in the state capital Shillong.
But the work of minors is illegal in India, with differences in the legal age of majority depending on the states. The law prohibits the organization of the work of mines in 1952, the companies employ minors under the age of 18 within the mines. But Megalaa not subject to this law because of its special status as a state in the northeast of the country inhabited by a majority of members of tribes where the predominantly tribal law over national law.
In these areas, the possibility of any owner of land mines, according to the desire drilling without any legal standards for safety. In these mines built unprofessionally, there are no sophisticated techniques, as it baptizes workers to dig inside the mines with their hands closets users pickaxes and shovels. Sanjay left, Big Brother eight children, school two years ago because of his parents' inability to continue to pay the installments.
And explains, "It's very hard work, I find it difficult to drag the cart after filling coal." Sanjay tells the slender body quivering wearing jeans stained with coal and wearing shoes Hbashba finger showing him two feet Mdjadtan as if they were of an adult man, said his parents always requesting him to return home to work with them. But he stresses that he is not ready to leave the mine after.
He says, "I need to save money to return to school.'ve Missed my friends and I still remember the school. Still have a dream since childhood." And emphasizes responsible for the mine Kumar Soba that many children like Sanjay flocking in large numbers in front of the mine a request for action, saying that "advancing always new kids. Lie about their age, they say they're in the age of twenty, while it is possible their faces to know they're much smaller." Among these children, Syria Limo owner of the face like the game is another of the team joined Kumar Soba in the village Rembaa.
And confirms that at the age of 17 years, as he tells that he left his native Nepal after his father's death in a fire inside his home, leaving behind a widow and two children. Unlike most experienced colleagues, down Petro Syria on the stairs in the movement reveal his body نحالة. He says, "Of course I am scared, but what can I do? Needed the money, how do I do otherwise to stay?"
According to the Organization "Aempels that DJ or Network" charity based in Shillong them, 70 thousand children are currently working in mines Megalaa and there are thousands of others working in the coal mines. The activist organization Rosanna Ingdo, that "mine owners Istr_khason the coal mining through manual methods and non-scientific as Istr_khason the employment of children. Police arrest bribes and turning a blind eye to it."
But after decades of work the mines without legislation, the state's intention to supply this year for the first time a policy governing this sector. The bill to ban the operation of the owners of the mines for the children, despite the failure to prevent the exploitation of these narrow passages and suffocating, which includes small cabins and can not face only of the children.
Rosanna expects to Ingdo that "whenever the continued existence of this type of mining for a longer period, will continue to run because the kids have the stature required to crawl" inside the mines. Often Indian mines plagued by sliding or collapse particular as a result of the chaos that printed a way to build, threatening to bury the children trapped in the rubble alive. According to Agence France Presse.
According to Gopal Rai, who lives with seven other workers in a bamboo hut 3 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, the compensation for children injured in the mines are rare, if not non-existent. Adds 17-year-old boy, "There are days the situation is acceptable while passing days it is difficult to breathe." But he does not see any benefit from visiting a doctor. And asks "What's the benefit of it? Anyway, at a time go to work without even knowing if you come back alive."
IT news network - Saturday 13 / July / 2013 - 4 / Ramadan / 1434
Network news: the problem of child labor is one of the most serious problems spread in many countries of the world, especially as some reports suggest growing this dangerous phenomenon in spite of appeals continued calling to care for and improve the lives of children, which is guaranteed by a lot of international conventions on children's rights in all parts of the world regardless of race, sex, religion, level of social or political orientation.
The concept of child labor is work that puts a heavy burden on the child, which threatens the safety and health and welfare, and the General Assembly of the United Nations has issued the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, known as a child as every human being below the age of eighteen and stressed the need to strive for the protection of the child from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the education or harmful to their health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, and necessitated the States parties to take appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to ensure such protection, and in particular a minimum Joining age and appropriate regulation of the hours and conditions of employment and to impose appropriate sanctions to ensure the effective application of these texts. Topping India, Bangladesh and the Philippines to the list of countries that contribute to child labor in the manufacture of various types of products, it showed three reports to the U.S. Department of Labor. Has been manufacturing about 140 kinds of products thanks to child labor in 71 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the ministry said.
In India, the industry contributes to children in twenty products including bricks, fireworks and sports balls. In Bangladesh, child labor has allowed industry 14 different products such as watches, textiles and footwear. In the Philippines, children work in the manufacture of 12 types of products such as tobacco and fashion accessories. The number of working children in the world's estimated 215 million children lead more than half of them in hazardous labor, according to reports.
On the other hand employs about 2.5 million children in Central America, especially in the agriculture sector especially, in difficult and dangerous conditions to cast a shadow on the future and development of this region, as revealed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). And revealed the International Labour Organization that 21% of minors who ranged in age from 5 years to 17 years working in Guatemala, as opposed to 15% in Honduras, and 13% in Nicaragua, and 10% in Belize, and 7% in Panama, and 6% in El Salvador, and 5 % in Costa Rica.
In this region of the world where affects poverty, 40% of the population of 45 million, depriving This entry was premature to the labor market of children "of the education and training necessary" to put themselves and provide their families and communities, according to confirmed in a statement Virgilio Levaggi Director of the ILO Office in Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The Director emphasized that "children who are victims of the worst types of work are subjected to ill-treatment of physical, psychological and moral can affect them until the end of their lives."
In the same context, an official report showed that about 1.5 million children between five and seven years of age were working in Colombia, bringing the percentage of child labor in the country to 13%. And said Jorge Boustamantih, director of the Center for National Statistics said, "It is a fact embarrassing because every developed society's goal is not to have children working." He added that "about 23% of the working children do not go to school."
Official data show that Colombia with a population of 44.9 million, including 11.2 million children aged between five and seventeen, representing about a quarter of the total population. Has announced 31.7% of the children who work rather than pursue their studies they are doing so voluntarily to make money, while 27,6% of them acknowledged that they are forced to work to help their families.
The more than half of working children they did not receive any remuneration, while 28.3% of them said they were employees and 20% of them said they knew at their own expense. And one-third of these children work in hotels and restaurants, and the other third in agriculture or fishing and 16.1% of them in the laboratory, according to the report, which did not mention the exploitation of minors in situations of armed groups or prostitution rings.
Meanwhile, a study published by the non-governmental organization "Sesfa" that more than 1.1 million children teach in Kenya push them to their families or their surroundings. She Christine Aoteyto the responsible and the Kenyan Ministry of Labour during the presentation of the report "Child labor is not a problem but part of the external life of families."
She says, "This study raises concern because of the ignorance of children and their surroundings rights." The study showed that these minors under the age of eighteen spend an average of four hours per day working for a daily wage less than one dollar on farms and construction sites, or even in the area of prostitution. He Diego Otolena the supervisor of this study, "half of the children who work appreciate that they contribute to the family income by 20 to 50%." According to Agence France Presse.
In some cases, the child's only source of income for the family. Elios said Opio from "African Network for the Prevention and protection from exploitation of children", "spotted cases where the child believes the needs of disabled parents or the child is an orphan." Opio added, "It's more complicated cases because if we stopped the child from work, people who depend on it to find themselves without any solution." In the world's 25 million children work in exchange for wages, slightly more than half of them in hazardous conditions.
The phenomenon of child trafficking
It is home to prostitution service for girls and crafts for boys, sending hundreds of children each year from West Africa to Gabon to work in the country illegally, after being caught in the clutches of human trafficking operations. Suffice it to roam in Mont Bouet market the largest in Libreville to form an idea of the magnitude of this phenomenon. Dozens of children who are at a young age sometimes toil from morning to evening under the scorching sun. And carries some heavy cement bags on their shoulders, while others are trying to sell dried fish or sweets.
In the course of more than ten years, I pulled out more than 700 children from the clutches of human trafficking operations in Gabon and sent back to their home countries, as revealed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). But the number of victims of child trafficking is still high. No one knows in fact, "the number of children who work specifically vendors workers or domestic workers, since they do not have official documents and are working in the informal market," as explained Michel Xamba the UNICEF representative in Gabon.
Let us bring children to this small country, which has oil wealth and is one of the most developed countries in Africa, "child traffickers resort to illegal migration channels," according to Michel Xamba. And often lay the boats laden with immigrants from West Africa, fleeing the misery and unemployment in their country, on the shores of Libreville, when night falls. In 2009, the Navy stopped in Gabon a boat "Sharon" who was carrying 300 immigrants on board, including 34 children, UNICEF took care of them.
In most cases, the parents in the country remains clinging to empty promises and convinced small amounts of money. The nun told Margorit Buandala responsible for the centers "Espoir er Ercansiel" in Libreville Society's "Caritas" that "people are told that their children Sertadon school, then give them 20 thousand CFA francs (about 30 euros) to convince them." Does not know the majority of the children of Benin, Togo, Nigeria and Mali determination cache them in the territory of Gabon.
And assured Sister Margorit, that "trafficking networks Children Organization grandfather, and often puts children when traders are families of their own ... they who earn their wages." According to UNICEF, is who exploit children for the purposes of economic victims of other acts of violence, including sexual exploitation by employers houses. Sonia was at the age of six, when they reached the from Quito village south Benin to Gabon. And was told "you go early to the market for the sale of goods., And when you come back to the house, they were asking me to do domestic work The old man Nbarhani was beaten. They were say I am their daughter, but I know that this is not true."
The Sonia fled from the house at the end of the day, but few are the children who manage to escape from the grip of "new parents" who make their return only in this strange country, where do not have any official documents do not get any salary. The authorities have launched in Gabon, in cooperation with UNICEF training course in five large cities to help judges and police and judicial staff in the social services sector to put an end to the phenomenon of trafficking in children. According to Agence France Presse.
Performed is a girl in the age of fourteen she joined a training course for hairdressers in the center of the "Espoir" in Libreville not to go back to her empty hands and sink back into poverty. They are doing well, according to Sister Margorit.
Lebanon and Yemen
Meanwhile, warned a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) "ILO" that the employment rate among children in Lebanon rise at high rates, in light of the high standard of living and harsh economic conditions. It was noted in the study involving researchers from the University of Saint Joseph, that the percentage of school dropouts rose significantly at the national level in Lebanon, especially in the north and the Bekaa, where the percentage use of children in various business to 40 per cent in the Bekaa region only, which works most of the children where to agriculture or industry.
The study, which included 1007 children working between the ages of five and seventeen, of 174 family is different, unveiled demographic characteristics and economic and social conditions of working children, in addition to the types of businesses that they do, and the consequences for their social, physical and intellectual.
The study, which included both sexes, male and female, the average wage earned by working children a week of 51.740 thousand Lebanese pounds (34.00 dollars) in the regions of northern Lebanon and 50 thousand pounds (33.24 U.S. dollars) in the Bekaa region. The study, that there are many factors that have helped the spread of the use of children Koada worker and the denial of rights to education and care, and on top of these factors, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment as reasons key to this phenomenon, in addition to poor application of national laws on the protection of children.
The study recommended a number of plans to reduce child labor, including the amendment of the law work to raise the minimum age of employment to 15, and raised to 18 in hazardous work and 13 in light work, and to punish the exploitation of displaced persons, in addition to expanding the scope of inspections to cover the entire territory of Lebanon.
Besides pointed latest statistical reports issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to the presence of 1.6 million children work in Yemen, which raises the state of emergency requiring international action to help reduce this phenomenon. According to the FAO report, which was published on its website that the proportion of children aged between five and 17 years in Yemeni society is 34.3 per cent and promised up to 7.7 million children. According to CNN.
The report pointed out that 21 per cent of the 7.7 million children in Yemen are used in local business which is very high and requires rapid intervention. The report highlighted that the proportion of children working in the agricultural sector amounted to 56.1 per cent in the domestic services sector accounted for 29 per cent plus 7.9 per cent of them are working in other sectors such as wholesale and retail trade. The report on the lips of Regional Director of the Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Nada dry "must be the protection of children in Yemen a priority." Noting that "the development in Yemen depend on it."
Samsung check
In the same context, said the organization "Child LIBOR Watch" for the defense of children's rights, based in New York, said investigators followers have reached evidence to suggest the occurrence of violations of the right of children through their work in a factory owned by the company "H any LG Electronics" in China and a subsidiary of Samsung. She explained that seven children were identified under the age of 16 years within the factory workers.
But Samsung said it did not come up with any evidence of a violation of the Employment Act when it conducted its own investigation. The South Korean electronics company's famous statement that "Samsung Electronics conducted two separate Fychen in location in the working conditions in Aceh AG this year, but did not reach any excesses in these events."
She explained that "a team of inspectors including individuals from Samsung based in Korea will be sent to Huizhou, China and will open an investigation immediately and take appropriate action to remedy any problems that may arise." The organization said "Child LIBOR Watch" The investigators had limited contact with other departments at the factory, and there may be dozens of other staff young children.
And felt that the H-AG has a "weak internal control mechanisms." She explained that this problem resulted in the failure of H AG registered in the detection of young people who had contact with senior students who were sent to work in the factory during the summer school holidays and winter. The organization is also concerned about the injuries of workers and how to deal with the additional wages.
Children in mines
On the other hand promotes Sanjay Chhetri son thirteenth every day and fear itself deeply: that breaks down the coal mine where he works and die inside, like that of thousands of children in India's northeast who make their living working within the narrow tunnels so can not only children's access to it. And enjoy this slim boy with a fine bone structure appropriate strength to work in the mining industry in profit-generating mandate Megalaa, as the access to the dark corridors and wetlands to the mines, is available in front of people, adults.
The Sanjay work in the darkness of night where sliding down the stairs, along with Maulan and a small lamp in front of me, and unfathomable depths of the mine down to a depth of 1400 meters below the ground. Still cautious navigates the same as in the offing in the work seven months ago, fearing a slide and incidence to the bottom. Once entering the mine, squat as much as possible to enter into a hole 60 cm high and dragging behind an empty cart. Here are his nightmare begins: "It is terrible to imagine that breaks down the ceiling on through my work," says the boy. After 12 hours of work, Sanjay earns 200 rupees (3.7 dollars). This meager amount exceeds that earned his family workers in the state capital Shillong.
But the work of minors is illegal in India, with differences in the legal age of majority depending on the states. The law prohibits the organization of the work of mines in 1952, the companies employ minors under the age of 18 within the mines. But Megalaa not subject to this law because of its special status as a state in the northeast of the country inhabited by a majority of members of tribes where the predominantly tribal law over national law.
In these areas, the possibility of any owner of land mines, according to the desire drilling without any legal standards for safety. In these mines built unprofessionally, there are no sophisticated techniques, as it baptizes workers to dig inside the mines with their hands closets users pickaxes and shovels. Sanjay left, Big Brother eight children, school two years ago because of his parents' inability to continue to pay the installments.
And explains, "It's very hard work, I find it difficult to drag the cart after filling coal." Sanjay tells the slender body quivering wearing jeans stained with coal and wearing shoes Hbashba finger showing him two feet Mdjadtan as if they were of an adult man, said his parents always requesting him to return home to work with them. But he stresses that he is not ready to leave the mine after.
He says, "I need to save money to return to school.'ve Missed my friends and I still remember the school. Still have a dream since childhood." And emphasizes responsible for the mine Kumar Soba that many children like Sanjay flocking in large numbers in front of the mine a request for action, saying that "advancing always new kids. Lie about their age, they say they're in the age of twenty, while it is possible their faces to know they're much smaller." Among these children, Syria Limo owner of the face like the game is another of the team joined Kumar Soba in the village Rembaa.
And confirms that at the age of 17 years, as he tells that he left his native Nepal after his father's death in a fire inside his home, leaving behind a widow and two children. Unlike most experienced colleagues, down Petro Syria on the stairs in the movement reveal his body نحالة. He says, "Of course I am scared, but what can I do? Needed the money, how do I do otherwise to stay?"
According to the Organization "Aempels that DJ or Network" charity based in Shillong them, 70 thousand children are currently working in mines Megalaa and there are thousands of others working in the coal mines. The activist organization Rosanna Ingdo, that "mine owners Istr_khason the coal mining through manual methods and non-scientific as Istr_khason the employment of children. Police arrest bribes and turning a blind eye to it."
But after decades of work the mines without legislation, the state's intention to supply this year for the first time a policy governing this sector. The bill to ban the operation of the owners of the mines for the children, despite the failure to prevent the exploitation of these narrow passages and suffocating, which includes small cabins and can not face only of the children.
Rosanna expects to Ingdo that "whenever the continued existence of this type of mining for a longer period, will continue to run because the kids have the stature required to crawl" inside the mines. Often Indian mines plagued by sliding or collapse particular as a result of the chaos that printed a way to build, threatening to bury the children trapped in the rubble alive. According to Agence France Presse.
According to Gopal Rai, who lives with seven other workers in a bamboo hut 3 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, the compensation for children injured in the mines are rare, if not non-existent. Adds 17-year-old boy, "There are days the situation is acceptable while passing days it is difficult to breathe." But he does not see any benefit from visiting a doctor. And asks "What's the benefit of it? Anyway, at a time go to work without even knowing if you come back alive."
IT news network - Saturday 13 / July / 2013 - 4 / Ramadan / 1434
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