Child Labor Child Labor According to a survey financed by the International Labor Organization (June 2011) there are 5.59 million child laborers toiling in the Philippines and almost of them are weakening in hazardous conditions. Hazardous child labor is defined as being likely to harm children’s health, safety or morals by its nature or circumstances. Children may be directly exposed to obvious work hazards such as a sharp or poisonous chemicals. According to the US Department of the Labor the Philippines is one of the over 120 countries where the worst forms of child labor continue to exists .the exploitation of these numbers of Filipino children is in prostitution, pornography, agriculture, domestic work, drug trafficking and child soldiering!!! International Labor Organization country director Lawrence, Jeff Johnson said that the root of Child Labor is linked to the poverty and lack of decent and …show more content…
Carmelita Ericta of NSO say that 60 percent of the child is working in the agricultural sector and most of the children in agriculture are 2 boys and 1 girl .The younger age of the group is in age of 5-9 years old and most of them are in school. And the others are weakening in the construction sites and the 3 prevent are weakening in the mines, quarries and factory sites According to the News of InterAksyon Last June the incidence of Child Labor in the Philippines will be increased by almost 30 percent from 4.2 million in 2001 to 5.5 million last 2011.According by the survey of S.O.C of the National Statistic Office. In hazardous child labor the higher worker is the boys by 66.8 percent compared with the girls. In the Philippines they have 4 places that they have higher child do their work especially in Central Luzon. The NSO gave its finding last June during Philippines Celebration World Against