Topic Introduction
Millions of children worldwide are thrown into the traps of forced labour, with their childhood, education, health and most importantly their basic rights robbed off them. Most of these children work under extremely harsh conditions and take on life-threatening and dangerous jobs and are also underpaid and malnourished. However on the other spectrum, children are also forced into other extreme, morally unjustified jobs such as slavery , soldiering, prostitution, drug-trafficking. Many factors are said to be the driving force behind this issue which includes social norms, emergencies, migration and most prominently poverty. Even though there has been a decline in child labour over these years, progress has been made too slow and on top of that this issue is usually hidden from public’s eye as limited media attention is directed to it. Also with this issue being prevalent in many countries especially developing countries it calls for us as a council to find out and discuss on methods to curb this issue that has plagued this world for decades and to also determine if this issue is inevitable or preventable.
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As Child Labour has been an increasing trend according to the UN, and with 317 million children worldwide, this raises the eyes of many. A number of factors needs to be considered when we look at Child labour, which are: 1) Hazardous Work, 2) Light Work, 3) Basic Minimum Rights, 4) Level of Law enforcement within a country, when we are talking about the solutions to this major issue. This stands as a complicated issue as the root causes (not exhaustive) are associated with poverty, social male dominance, and gender specific work. Therefore, as there is a violation of human rights where children are forced to work against their own will, this calls for our council to come together to solve this